On 2011-04-18 10:33, NeilBrown wrote: > > > [[NOTE to dm-devel people - one of the patches here remove some > now-unused code from dm-raid.c plus a declaration from device-mapper.h ]]] > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:10:18 +0200 Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2011-04-18 09:25, NeilBrown wrote: > >>>>> Therefore md cannot put anything useful on the list in 'struct blk_plug'. >>> >>> That is the heart of the problem. >> >> Hmm, I don't really see a way to avoid the list in that case. You really >> do need some way to queue items, a single callback or flag or pointer >> will not suffice. >> >> I've added the patch and removed the (now) useless ->unplugged_fn >> callback. I suggest you base your md changes on top of my for-linus >> branch and tell me when you are confident it looks good, then I'll pull >> in your MD changes and submit them later today. >> >> OK with you? >> > > Yes, that's perfect. Thanks. > > All of my plugging-related patches are now in a 'for-jens' branch: > > The following changes since commit 99e22598e9a8e0a996d69c8c0f6b7027cb57720a: > > block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt (2011-04-18 09:59:55 +0200) > > are available in the git repository at: > git://neil.brown.name/md for-jens > > NeilBrown (6): > md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO. > md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback. > md - remove old plugging code. > md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks. > md: incorporate new plugging into raid5. > md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging. > > drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 8 ---- > drivers/md/md.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------- > drivers/md/md.h | 26 ++---------- > drivers/md/raid1.c | 29 +++++++------- > drivers/md/raid10.c | 27 ++++++------- > drivers/md/raid5.c | 61 ++++++++++++---------------- > drivers/md/raid5.h | 2 - > include/linux/device-mapper.h | 1 - > 8 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-) Great, thanks a lot Neil! It's pulled in now, will send the request to Linus today. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
