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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Sujit Karataparambil <sjt.kar@gmail.com>
Cc: SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@gmail.com>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:01:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19000.48877.539325.500493@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Sujit Karataparambil on Wednesday June 17

On Wednesday June 17, sjt.kar@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry what your patch claims is that the raid array can change the number of
> array's otherwise there is no need for an rcu.
> 
> > What makes you think that md is static when you array itself can grow.
> > md contains information pertaining to the array it holds.
> 
> This is what I saying my the md is built statically on top of the raid.

md/linear allows an array to grow while it is only.  You can add a
drive to a 'linear' array and it will become larger to include that
drive.  So the array is not completely static.

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 15:24 [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in SandeepKsinha
2009-06-14 22:56 ` Neil Brown
2009-06-17  6:35   ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  6:46     ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  8:02       ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-17  8:48         ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  9:14           ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-17  9:32             ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  9:37               ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-17 10:01                 ` Neil Brown [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <37d33d830906170315k4087d532nc2426879c2063fd7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-06-17 10:17                     ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17 23:38                       ` [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races Neil Brown
2009-06-17  9:59       ` [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in Neil Brown
2009-06-17  6:50     ` NeilBrown

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