From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932607AbbHDRxx (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:53:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58017 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754978AbbHDRxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:53:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:53:49 -0400 From: Mike Snitzer To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Persistent Reservation API Message-ID: <20150804175349.GA29013@redhat.com> References: <1438672271-11309-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1438672271-11309-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> 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 Tue, Aug 04 2015 at 3:11am -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series adds support for a simplified persistent reservation API > to the block layer. The intent is that both in-kernel and userspace > consumers can use the API instead of having to hand craft SCSI or NVMe > command through the various pass through interfaces. It also adds > DM support as getting reservations through dm-multipath is a major > pain with the current scheme. The DM changes need to go through linux-dm.git. Once the block and SCSI bits land I'll rebase accordingly. That cross-maintainer logisitics aside, I'll reply with feedback on the DM patches.