Re: Thin provisioning fixes (take 3)

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On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 12:00 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Changes since last kit:
> 
>  - Patch 1 (block): Wire up an ioctl that reports whether the
>    block device zeroes after discard
> 
>  - Patch 2 (sd): Tweak max_discard_sectors reporting
> 
>  - Patch 3 (scsi, new): Retry temporary TP write errors
> 
>  - Patch 4 (libata): No change
> 
>  - Patch 5 (libata): Switch to a bytes-in, bytes-out convention
>    for ata_set_lba_range_entries() to make things more clear
> 
> I think we need a bit R&D wrt. discard coalescing and I doubt
> we'll have that ready for the merge window.  So I suggest we
> stick with the current loop-over-max-discard-sectors approach for
> 2.6.32.

So you forgot to specify ordering.  I think the right ordering is that
actually, there isn't any.  Jens can take 1, I can take 2,3 and Jeff can
take 4,5 without running any postmerge trees ... is that correct?

James


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