[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/2] dm zoned fixes for 5.8

2020-07-07 Thread Damien Le Moal
Mike, A couple of fixes for dm-zoned for this cycle. The first patch fixes a possible hang under intensive write workload with a setup that has a very limited number of cache zones. The second patch fixes some compilation warnings showing when compiling with W=1. Damien Le Moal (2): dm zoned: F

[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/2] dm-zoned fixes

2020-06-19 Thread Damien Le Moal
A couple of fixes for dm-zoned which solve target hangs under severe zone shortage conditions with a write intensive workload. Both fixes are for reclaim zone selection. Damien Le Moal (1): dm zoned: Fix random zone reclaim selection Shin'ichiro Kawasaki (1): dm zoned: Fix reclaim zone select

[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/2] dm-zoned fixes

2018-10-17 Thread Damien Le Moal
Mike, As discussed, the first patch changes the atomic_t type of metadata block reference count to a simple integer (unsigned). While making this change, I found a couple of problems with the dmz_get_mblock() function which are fixed in the second patch. Both are Cc: stable so that the main fix (