On 19/12/18 16:43, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 07:11:10PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> On 11/11/18 15:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout >>> driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we >>> removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without >>> real life users. >>> >> >> You have failed to say what is your motivation for this patchset? What >> is it you are trying to fix/improve. > > Drop basically unused support, which allows us to > > 1) reduce the size of every kernel with block layer support, and > even more for every kernel with scsi support
Do you have numbers? its mainly code-segment so I don't think you will see any real life measurable difference. > 2) reduce the size of the critical struct request structure by > 128 bits, thus reducing the memory used by every blk-mq driver > significantly, never mind the cache effects 128 bits? I see the "struct request *next_rq;" is there another one? It could share space with elv; && flush; Do you want a patch? > 3) stop having the maintainance overhead for this code in the > block layer, which has been rather painful at times > I hear you man. Life is pain. But is it really such an overhead? I mean it is already implemented. What else is there to do? Please please show me? (Sorry for being slow) Jai Maa Boaz
