From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:13:48 -0500 From: Mike Snitzer To: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: David Jeffery , Ming Lei , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com Subject: Re: [for-4.16 PATCH v5 0/4] block/dm: allow DM to defer blk_register_queue() until ready Message-ID: <20180112161348.GA4782@redhat.com> References: <20180112150606.6037-1-snitzer@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20180112150606.6037-1-snitzer@redhat.com> List-ID: On Fri, Jan 12 2018 at 10:06am -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: > Hi Jens, > > I'm submitting this v5 with more feeling now ;) Of course PATCH 02/04 needed a v6. > I've distilled the changes down to be quite minimal. Hopefully this > will help you and others review. I could make it even simpler by dropping 02/04 entirely. But I do think it worthwhile to try to get 02/04 in at this time too. > I've also done a dry-run of applying 4.16 block changes and then > merging dm-4.16; no merge conflicts: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/snitzer/linux.git/log/?h=block-4.16 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/snitzer/linux.git/log/?h=dm-4.16 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/snitzer/linux.git/log/?h=block-4.16_dm-4.16 > > And all tests very well for me. > > Please consider for 4.16, thanks! Anyway, I've genuinely tested with blk-mq now. Sorry for all the iterations on this patchset in such rapid succession. Obviously I know it doesn't instill confidence... But I really would appreciate you giving this patchset serious consideration. DM is long overdue for this fix. Thanks, Mike