Hi, On Wed, Jun 30 2010 at 9:47pm -0400, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:01:04 -0500 > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > So this is more directly what I'm thinking. It gives us an exactly > > correct place to hang the discard allocation in SCSI. The next patch > > shows a potential implementation in sd. > > Yeah, making the prep_rq_fn API symmetrical makes sense lots. > > > > I think it should avoid all the leaks people have been seeing trying to > > move the discard allocation/free into scsi. I also think it should > > facilitate sending discard through SCSI as a REQ_TYPE_FS. > > I think so. If I can figure out why qemu scsi driver is broken, the > job is done. When I combine this patch 1/2 and patch 2/2 with Christoph's discard payload rework (a1d949f5f448) already staged in for-2.6.36 I'm finding that: sd_unprep_fn's __free_page causes the system to hard hang/crash. I need to get serial connected and/or kdump configured to see if I can catch what is happening. But if I comment out sd_unprep_fn's __free_page() from James' patch 2/2 I don't see a crash. Seems some other code is altering the request before James' new sd_unprep_fn hhook? Are James' patches meant to be dependent on your REQ_TYPE_FS conversion work? I wouldn't think so.. but I haven't traced the call chains close enough to know. > I'll see how this patchset works and update my FS discard patchset on > the top of this. I look forward to your results! Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
