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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] block: implement an unprep function corresponding directly to prep
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:51:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2B8412.6040807@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277917264.2839.153.camel@mulgrave.site>

On 30/06/10 19.01, James Bottomley wrote:
> So this is more directly what I'm thinking.  It gives us an exactly
> correct place to hang the discard allocation in SCSI.  The next patch
> shows a potential implementation in sd.
> 
> I think it should avoid all the leaks people have been seeing trying to
> move the discard allocation/free into scsi.  I also think it should
> facilitate sending discard through SCSI as a REQ_TYPE_FS.

This is so much better than the other hacks, thanks for doing this.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-30 17:01 [RFC 1/2] block: implement an unprep function corresponding directly to prep James Bottomley
2010-06-30 17:10 ` [RFC 2/2] sd: free discard page in unprep function James Bottomley
2010-06-30 17:23 ` [RFC 1/2] block: implement an unprep function corresponding directly to prep Mike Snitzer
2010-06-30 17:51 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2010-06-30 17:54   ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-07-01  1:47 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-01  3:47   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-07-01  4:44     ` [dm-devel] " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-02 11:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-05  7:00     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-05 19:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-05 21:50         ` Mark Lord
2010-07-05 21:54           ` Mark Lord
2010-07-05 22:00             ` Jeff Garzik
2010-08-03  3:01             ` Mark Lord
2010-07-06  7:04         ` FUJITA Tomonori

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