Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] [LSF/MM ATTEND] md raid general discussion

[Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>]

On 01/10/2017 12:38 AM, Coly Li wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'd like to propose a general md raid discussion, it is quite necessary
> for most of active md raid developers sit together to discuss current
> challenge of Linux software raid and development trends.
>
> In the last years, we have many development activities in md raid, e.g.
> raid5 cache, raid1 clustering, partial parity log, fast fail
> upstreaming, and some effort for raid1 & raid0 performance improvement.
>
> I see there are some kind of functionality overlap between r5cache
> (raid5 cache) and PPL (partial parity log), currently I have no idea
> where we will go for these two development activities.
> Also I receive reports from users that raid1 performance is desired when
> it is built on NVMe SSDs as a cache (maybe bcache or dm-cache). I am
> working on some raid1 performance improvement (e.g. new raid1 I/O
> barrier and lockless raid1 I/O submit), and have some more ideas to discuss.
>
> Therefore, if md raid developers may have a chance to sit together,
> discuss how to efficiently collaborate in next year, it will be much
> more productive then communicating on mailing list.

I would like to attend raid discussion, besides above topics I think we
can talk about improve the test suite of mdadm to make it more robust
(I can share related test suite which is used for clustered raid).

And I could share  the status of clustered raid about what we have done
and what we can do in the future. Finally, I'd like to know/discuss about
the roadmap of RAID.

Thanks a lot!
Guoqing