Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 11/27/06, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly in cluster sit

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-02 Thread Ming Zhang
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 13:28 -0500, Ming Zhao wrote: > On 12/1/06, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > like to see this idea but any similarity with > > http://www.ele.uri.edu/Research/hpcl/STICS/stics.pdf? > > > > STICS is patent pending so not sure if kernel can be free to merge this > > dm

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-02 Thread Ming Zhao
On 12/1/06, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: like to see this idea but any similarity with http://www.ele.uri.edu/Research/hpcl/STICS/stics.pdf? STICS is patent pending so not sure if kernel can be free to merge this dm-cache. I like the idea of STICS, an efficient bridge between SCSI and

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-01 Thread Ming Zhang
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:55 -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 11/27/06, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a > > > write-back > > > or write-throug

Re: [dm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-01 Thread Jens Wilke
On Friday 01 December 2006 08:16, Ming Zhao wrote: > On 11/30/06, Jens Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - You don't keep track of I/O on the fly to the cache that is mapped > > directly in cache_hit(). How do you make sure that this I/O is completed > > before you replace a cache block? > > Th

Re: [dm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-30 Thread Ming Zhao
On 11/30/06, Jens Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - You don't keep track of I/O on the fly to the cache that is mapped directly in cache_hit(). How do you make sure that this I/O is completed before you replace a cache block? The previous I/O from cache hit and the later I/O for cache replacem

Re: [dm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-30 Thread Jens Wilke
On Thursday 30 November 2006 17:24, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 11/30/06, Jens Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2006 19:26, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > > If this is intended to speed up remote disks, is it possible that the cache > > content > > can be paged out

Re: [dm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-30 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 11/30/06, Jens Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 27 November 2006 19:26, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: If this is intended to speed up remote disks, is it possible that the cache content can be paged out on local disks in low-mem situations? The main intent was to use local disks as

Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly i

Re: [dm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-30 Thread Jens Wilke
On Monday 27 November 2006 19:26, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly in > clus

Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 11/27/06, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devi

Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-27 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly i

[RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly in cluster situations. In performance tests with iSCSI, gave peformance imp