On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/15/2015 11:59 AM, Dan Williams wrote: >> I still don't understand what we get by adding this new allocator >> besides complexity, am I missing something? > > > Two things: > > - libata tag allocator sucks. Like seriously sucks, it's almost a worst case > implementation. Not questioning its suckiness, but I thought the SATA suckiness made it moot. Apparently not in all cases... > - Much better to have a single unified allocator to tweak and tune, than > having separate version. > > #2 is still lacking a bit, but I don't think it'd be impossible to unify it > all. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87101 has gone silent, I need to ping it. That's my primary concern with the current proposal, supporting controllers that have weird/unnatural relationships with the value of the tag. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
