From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Distributed storage.
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:05:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070807120523.GX5245@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708051423.45484.phillips@phunq.net>
On Sun, Aug 05 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> A simple way to solve the stable accounting field issue is to add a new
> pointer to struct bio that is owned by the top level submitter
> (normally generic_make_request but not always) and is not affected by
> any recursive resubmission. Then getting rid of that field later
> becomes somebody's summer project, which is not all that urgent because
> struct bio is already bloated up with a bunch of dubious fields and is
> a transient structure anyway.
Thanks for your insights. Care to detail what bloat and dubious fields
struct bio has?
And we don't add temporary fields out of laziness, hoping that "someone"
will later kill it again and rewrite it in a nicer fashion. Hint: that
never happens, bloat sticks.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 17:13 Distributed storage Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-02 21:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-03 10:26 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 10:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 12:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-03 13:49 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-03 19:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-03 19:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-04 1:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-04 16:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-05 8:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-05 15:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-05 21:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 8:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-07 12:05 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-08-07 18:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-07 20:55 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-08 9:54 ` Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.] Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-08 10:17 ` [1/1] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-08 13:28 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-12 23:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 8:18 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-27 21:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 5:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 5:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 6:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 8:14 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 11:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 12:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 12:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 12:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 8:23 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 11:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 12:18 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 13:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-14 8:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-14 11:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-14 11:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-14 11:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-14 11:50 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-14 12:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-14 12:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-14 12:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-12 23:36 ` Distributed storage Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 7:28 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-13 7:45 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-13 9:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 9:13 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-13 9:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 10:06 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-13 10:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 10:22 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-13 10:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 9:18 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 10:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 11:03 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-13 11:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 8:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 9:12 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-13 23:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-03 4:09 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-08-03 10:42 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-04 0:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-03 5:04 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-03 10:44 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-04 2:51 ` Dave Dillow
2007-08-04 3:44 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-04 17:03 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-04 0:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-04 16:44 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-05 8:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-05 15:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-05 21:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 8:28 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
[not found] ` <200708281027.59528.phillips@phunq.net>
[not found] ` <20070828175403.GA28440@2ka.mipt.ru>
[not found] ` <200708281408.06618.phillips@phunq.net>
2007-08-29 8:53 ` [1/1] Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.] Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-30 23:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-31 17:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-31 21:41 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-09-02 4:42 ` Daniel Phillips
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2008-08-27 16:07 Distributed STorage Evgeniy Polyakov
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