From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: roger.pau@citrix.com,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 12/12] xen-block: implement indirect descriptors
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:16:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130305141610.GF2589@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5135B6B702000078000C2FFF@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:11:19AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 04.03.13 at 21:44, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > <nods> 'op' sounds good. With a comment saying it can do all of the
> > BLKIF_OPS_..
> > except the BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT one. Thought one could in theory chain
> > it that way for fun.
>
> In fact I'd like to exclude chaining as well as BLKIF_OP_DISCARD here.
> The former should - if useful for anything - be controlled by a
> separate feature flag, and the latter is plain pointless to indirect.
> And I reckon the same would apply to BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE
> and BLKIF_OP_RESERVED_1 - i.e. it might be better to state that
> indirection is only permitted for normal I/O (read/write) ops.
<nods> That makes sense. And also of course the new BLKIF_OP should
be documented in the Xen tree as well.
>
> Jan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-05 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 10:28 [PATCH RFC 00/12] xen-block: indirect descriptors Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] xen-blkback: don't store dev_bus_addr Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:58 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-03-04 17:19 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-05 8:06 ` Jan Beulich
2013-03-05 17:02 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] xen-blkback: fix foreach_grant_safe to handle empty lists Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 03/12] xen-blkfront: switch from llist to list Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] xen-blkfront: pre-allocate pages for requests Roger Pau Monne
2013-03-04 19:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 11:04 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-05 14:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 16:30 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-05 21:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-06 9:17 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] xen-blkfront: remove frame list from blk_shadow Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] xen-blkback: implement LRU mechanism for persistent grants Roger Pau Monne
2013-03-04 20:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 18:10 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-05 21:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-18 17:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] xen-blkback: print stats about " Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] xen-blkback: use balloon pages for all mappings Roger Pau Monne
2013-03-04 20:22 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-26 17:30 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-26 17:48 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] xen-blkback: move pending handles list from blkbk to pending_req Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 11:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] xen-blkback: make the queue of free requests per backend Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 11:08 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 11/12] xen-blkback: expand map/unmap functions Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 10:28 ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] xen-block: implement indirect descriptors Roger Pau Monne
2013-02-28 11:19 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-02-28 12:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-28 13:28 ` Jan Beulich
2013-03-04 20:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 8:11 ` Jan Beulich
2013-03-05 14:16 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-03-05 17:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-05 21:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-04 20:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 17:07 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-05 21:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-08 17:07 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-22 1:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-18 17:06 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-19 14:38 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-28 10:49 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/12] xen-block: " Jan Beulich
2013-02-28 11:25 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-28 11:35 ` Jan Beulich
2013-02-28 11:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
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