From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754354Ab3ARRmy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:42:54 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31190 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487Ab3ARRmx (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:42:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:42:19 +0000 From: thornber@redhat.com To: device-mapper development Cc: Amit Kale , "kent.overstreet@gmail.com" , Mike Snitzer , LKML , "linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Announcement: STEC EnhanceIO SSD caching software for Linux kernel Message-ID: <20130118174218.GB3118@raspberrypi> Mail-Followup-To: device-mapper development , Amit Kale , "kent.overstreet@gmail.com" , Mike Snitzer , LKML , "linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org" References: <20130116104546.GA3869@raspberrypi> <20130117132620.GA2438@raspberrypi> <50F844A3.9020300@warr.net> <50F970A3.4000403@warr.net> <20130118161135.GA3118@raspberrypi> <50F97C0F.9010405@warr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50F97C0F.9010405@warr.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:45:03AM -0600, Jason Warr wrote: > As much as I dislike Oracle that is one of my primary applications. I > am attempting to get one of my customers to setup an Oracle instance > that is modular in that I can move the storage around to fit a > particular hardware setup and have a consistent benchmark that they use > in the real world to gauge performance. One of them is a debit card > transaction clearing entity on multi-TB databases so latency REALLY > matters there. Hopefully I'll have a couple of them setup within a > week. At that point I may need help in getting the proper kernel trees > and patch sets munged into a working kernel. That seems to be the spot > where I fall over most of the time. > > Unfortunately I probably could not share this specific setup but it is > likely that I can derive a version from it that can be opened. That would be perfect. Please ask for any help you need. - Joe