[PATCH-v3 0/2] delay initializing queue for request-based dm

[Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>]

On Monday 10 August 2009 16:18:12 Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> On Saturday 08 August 2009 10:25:53 Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Currently for device-mapper devices, we initialize the mempool for
> > requests and elevator at device creation time. But only request-based
> > devices use the elevator and mempool. These patches change it to allocate
> > the mempool and initialize the elevator only for request-based devices.
> > This is done by allocating a queue at device creation time, but delaying
> > the initialization of elevator and allocation of mempool till the first
> > table load time, when the type of device would be known.
> >
> > [PATCH 1/2] Allow delaying initialization of queue after allocation
> >
> > [PATCH 2/2] Initialize mempool and elevator only for request-based dm
> > devices
> >
> > Another approach would be to free the mempool and detach elevator, if it
> > would be a bio-based device. But it is better to avoid initialization
> > itself.
>
> Changes since v1:
> 1. Refreshed on top of a4e7d46407d73f35d217013b363b79a8f8eafcaa
> 2. Added comments suggested by Mike Snitzer.
> 3. Cleaned up the second patch as suggested by Mike Snitzer.
>

Changes since v2:
1. Add comments suggested by Kiyoshi Ueda
2. Export symbol elv_register_queue() to modules.
3. Call elv_register_queue() after initializing the queue to use the elevator.

Thanks
Nikanth