Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] rqbased-dm: add block layer hook

2006-12-22 Thread Kiyoshi Ueda
Hi Mike, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:18:44 -0600, Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In addition to the suggested approach, what do you think about > > adding a new flag to req->cmd_flags which lets the end_io() handler > > not to return bio to upper layer? > > It will be useful for multipath

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] rqbased-dm: add block layer hook

2006-12-21 Thread Mike Christie
Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: > Hi Jens, > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:49:47 +0100, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The new hook is needed for error handling in dm. >>> For example, when an error occurred on a request, dm-multipath >>> wants to try another path before returning EIO to application. >>