On Wed, Oct 28 2015 at 2:43pm -0400, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15 2015 at 8:10am -0400, > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> 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 ioctl API is documented in Documentation/block/pr.txt, but to > > fully understand the concept you'll have to read up the SPC spec, > > PRs are too complicated that trying to rephrase them into different > > terminology is just going to create confusion. > > > > Note that Mike wants to include the DM patches so through the DM > > tree, so they are only included for reference. > > I looked at these again and the DM changes look good. Any update on > if/when the block changes will land? I should've looked at Jens' tree before asking.. I now see Jens has for-4.4/reservations I'll rebase accordingly and pick up the DM changes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
