Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Pierre Ossman
Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday February 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I was wondering if the block layer has been changed into a more serialized >> manner yet? I've been trying to google this, but so far no luck. I know there >> was some talk about removing the stack based approach, but I

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > Might this: > >http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22 > > > > relate to your question? > > If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a > > patch to fix this

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Might this: >http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22 > > relate to your question? > If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a > patch to fix this in in -mm but there are or were some potential > issues in dm

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday February 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if the block layer has been changed into a more serialized > manner yet? I've been trying to google this, but so far no luck. I know there > was some talk about removing the stack based approach, but I can't find any > information

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday February 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if the block layer has been changed into a more serialized manner yet? I've been trying to google this, but so far no luck. I know there was some talk about removing the stack based approach, but I can't find any information about

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: Might this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22 relate to your question? If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a patch to fix this in in -mm but there are or were some potential issues in dm that

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: Might this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22 relate to your question? If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a patch to fix this in in -mm

Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

2007-02-21 Thread Pierre Ossman
Neil Brown wrote: On Friday February 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if the block layer has been changed into a more serialized manner yet? I've been trying to google this, but so far no luck. I know there was some talk about removing the stack based approach, but I can't find