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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: Akira Hayakawa <ruby.wktk@gmail.com>
Cc: ejt@redhat.com, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	snitzer@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:17:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150220161759.GC4740@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54E75B70.1010007@gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 01:06:08AM +0900, Akira Hayakawa wrote:
> The size is configurable but typically 512KB (that's the default).
> 
> Refer to bio payload sounds really dangerous but it may be possible
> in some tricky way. but at the moment I am not sure how the
> implementation would be.
> 
> Is there some fancy function that is like memcpy but actually "move"
> the ownership?

When building up your log chunk bio copy the bio_vecs (not the data)
from the original bios.  You can't complete the original bios until
your log chunk has been written.

- Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-20 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-01  8:44 [PATCH v3] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost Akira Hayakawa
2015-01-18  0:09 ` Greg KH
2015-02-20  8:44   ` Akira Hayakawa
2015-02-20 15:06     ` Joe Thornber
     [not found]       ` <54E75201.9030202@gmail.com>
2015-02-20 15:50         ` Joe Thornber
2015-02-20 16:06           ` Akira Hayakawa
2015-02-20 16:17             ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2015-02-21  1:36               ` Akira Hayakawa

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