From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md - 8 of 8 - Support reshaping raid1 arrays - adding or removing drives.
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:32:31 +0200
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NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> This requires allocating a new pool of "r1bio" structures which a different
> number of bios, suspending IO, and swapping the new pool in place of the old.
> (and a few other related changes).

Hmmm, I'm not really familiar with the md-code, but doesn't
do memory allocation at runtime re-introduce the 2.2. swap-
on-raid-problems?
Afair, they were due to swap out -> md driver allocates
something -> no ram -> swap out -> md driver allocates ...


regards,
   Mario
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