On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:08 AM Verma, Vishal L <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 10:38 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, Vishal, > > > > > > On 8/28/19 5:17 PM, Vishal Verma wrote: > > > Add a --continue option to ndctl-create-namespaces to allow the creation > > > of as many namespaces as possible, that meet the given filter > > > restrictions. > > > > > > The creation loop will be aborted if a failure is encountered at any > > > point. > > > > Just wondering what is the motivation behind providing this option? > > Hi Jane, > > See Steve's email here: > https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2019-August/023390.html > > Essentially it lets sysadmins create a simple, maximal configuration > without everyone having to script it.
It also gives a touch point to start thinking about parallel namespace creation. The large advancements in boot time that Alex achieved were mainly from parallelizing namespace init. With --continue we could batch the namespace enable calls and kick off a bind thread per namespace. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
