On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:58:00AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: > The time for 4.10 inclusion has passed. This needs to wait until 4.11. > > It also needs more review, testing and possible re-working. Each DM > target shouldn't have to worry about these details (though I do grant > that dm-crypt.c:clone_init call to bio_set_prio makes sense). > > A more generic solution is needed (likely in DM core). > > A while ago, Vivek floated a patch that spoke to the need for iocontext > (for the purposes of cgroups): > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8485451/ > > I don't consider your patch too dissimilar. But it just needs to be > worked on during a development window. On to 4.11 ;) Mike, this current patch is a pure bugfix, and you can't fault Eric for not wanting to do work on dm-cache too when all he's trying to do is solve a particular real world problem. He should be able to do that without having to dive into dm-cache code too. Furthermore, pretty much every filesystem has private ioctls and interfaces - this is no different. If you dm guys want to standardize something, that's awesome - and in hindsight, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to CC you guys on the original patches. But please keep in mind Eric's not a full time kernel developer, and don't crap on his work just becausue he's not working on dm-cache too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
