Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-09-27 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Tue, Sep 24 2013 at 3:19pm -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:20:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24 2013 at 7:00am -0400, > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > Just curious, what's the state of the remaining immutable bio work? > > > > Hey Christop

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-09-24 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:20:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24 2013 at 7:00am -0400, > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Just curious, what's the state of the remaining immutable bio work? > > Hey Christoph, > > Have you been over the patchset? Looks sane to you? > > Given how d

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-09-24 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:00:12AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Just curious, what's the state of the remaining immutable bio work? Mostly just waiting for Jens to pull it, though I did discover an issue with the "generic bio chaining" patch last time I was testing it - but that's towards the

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:20:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > Have you been over the patchset? Looks sane to you? I looked over it, although I didn't dig into the details of all driver patches, and I like what I see. As said in the previous mail I'd love to see the patches to shrink struct bio

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Tue, Sep 24 2013 at 7:00am -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Just curious, what's the state of the remaining immutable bio work? Hey Christoph, Have you been over the patchset? Looks sane to you? Given how disruptive this patchset is to the block layer I'm wondering how painful this chang

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Just curious, what's the state of the remaining immutable bio work? On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > What is preventing you from sending those out as well? While it's not > > absolutely nessecary it would certainly be good if we'd avoid a struct > > bio size re

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-08-08 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:09:54AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 02:54:09PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > _However_, I have more patches (that depend on this patch series) to get > > that back - segment merging improvements that get rid of > > bi_seg_front_size, bi_s

Re: [PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-08-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 02:54:09PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > _However_, I have more patches (that depend on this patch series) to get > that back - segment merging improvements that get rid of > bi_seg_front_size, bi_seg_back_size, and bi_phys_segments. Once all that > is in it should be a ne

[PATCH 0/22] Immutable biovecs, block layer changes

2013-08-07 Thread Kent Overstreet
Jens - here's the immutable biovec patch series. I'd really like to get this stuff into 3.12 if at all possible, and I think this series ought to be ready - and, the dio rewrite and various other fun stuff is gated on this stuff. Not much in these patches has changed over the past six months or so