From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kent Overstreet Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/12] dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:44:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20120813214446.GC9541@google.com> References: <1344290921-25154-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <1344290921-25154-3-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <20120808220612.GA6983@dhcp-172-17-108-109.mtv.corp.google.com> <20120808235731.GA7262@moria.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joseph Glanville Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, mpatocka@redhat.com, sage@newdream.net, yehuda@hq.newdream.net, snitzer@redhat.com List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:24:45PM +1000, Joseph Glanville wrote: > Hi Kent, Tejun > > On 9 August 2012 09:57, Kent Overstreet wrote: > >> Also, how was this tested? > > > > Well, AFAICT the only request based dm target is multipath, and from the > > documentation I've seen it doesn't appear to work without multipath > > hardware, or at least I haven't seen it documented how. So, unless > > there's another user I missed it's not been tested. > > Multipath can be tested quite easily with a loopback scsi target, you > don't require specialized hardware. > The easiest way to do this would probably be the built in LIO target + > open_iscsi initiator. > > I haven't attempted running this current version of the patch series > but I haven't run into issues with bcache+multipath in the past. Actually, I bet you have been running this code - do you think you could check the git log for the version you're running? That'd be awesome if you are.