Jens, > It'd be feasible to have less reserved tags, you only need as many as > you want to have these special commands inflight. Post that, > returning BUSY and just retrying when a request completes should be > fine. Hence I'd size the reserved tag pool appropriately depending on > what kind of performance is expected out of this, with just 1 reserved > tag being enough to give us the guarantees we need for forward > progress. Yep. Since this is labeled as a performance feature I do think it's important to find the right balance between reserved and real tags. > I think the plan forward is clear here then: > > 1) Revert the optimization that requires the use of cloned insert for > 5.15. Given that HPB developed over time, I am not sure how simple a revert would be. And we only have a couple of days left before release. I really want the smallest patch possible that either removes or disables the 2.0 support. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering