Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Have you remodelled the md/raid1 make_request() fn?
>
> Somewhat. Write requests are queued, and raid1d submits them when
> it is happy that all bitmap updates have been done.
OK - so a slight modification o
Hi Neil,
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:17, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday March 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > The first two are trivial and should apply equally to 2.6.11
> > >
> > > The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent
> > > b
On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> But I digress. My immediate problem is that writes must be queued
> first. I thought md traditionally did not queue requests, but instead
> used its own make_request substitute to dispatch incoming requests as
> they arrived.
>
> Have you remodelle
On Monday March 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The first two are trivial and should apply equally to 2.6.11
> >
> > The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent
> > bitmap-based-intent-logging patches and so are not relevant
> > to 2.6.
Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > Neil - can you describe for me (us all?) what is meant by
> > intent-logging here.
>
> Since I wrote a lot of the code, I guess I'll try...
Hi, Paul. Thanks.
> > Well, I can guess - I suppose the driver marks the bitmap before
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
Neil - can you describe for me (us all?) what is meant by
intentÂlogging here.
Since I wrote a lot of the code, I guess I'll try...
Well, I can guess - I suppose the driver marks the bitmap before a write
(or group of writes) and unmarks it when they have completed
successful
NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent
> bitmap-based-intent-logging patches and so are not relevant
Neil - can you describe for me (us all?) what is meant by
intentÂlogging here.
Well, I can guess - I suppose the driver marks the bitmap
NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The first two are trivial and should apply equally to 2.6.11
>
> The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent
> bitmap-based-intent-logging patches and so are not relevant
> to 2.6.11 yet.
The changelog for the "Fix typo in super_1_sync"
4 patches for md/raid in 2.6.11-mm1
The first two are trivial and should apply equally to 2.6.11
The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent
bitmap-based-intent-logging patches and so are not relevant
to 2.6.11 yet.
[PATCH md 1 of 4] Fix typo in super_1_sync
[PATCH md 2 of 4] E
