Re: [dm-devel] Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-22 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:17:59AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: Back when I was writing the stable pages patches, I observed that some of the filesystems didn't hold the pages containing their own metadata stable during writeback on a stable-writes device. The journalling filesystems were

Re: Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-21 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: On Wed 20-05-15 18:04:40, Kent Overstreet wrote: Yeah. I never figured out a sane way to migrate pages and keep everything else happy. Daniel Phillips is having a go at page forking for tux3; let's see if the questions about

Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-20 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:10:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:42:00AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: Also, stable pages - what's been going on there? Last I heard you were talking about using the page migration code to do COW, did anything come of that? I

Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] fix max discard sectors limit

2013-04-22 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 01:40:02AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote: From: Namjae Jeon namjae.j...@samsung.com linux-v3.8-rc1 and later support for plug for blkdev_issue_discard with commit 0cfbcafcae8b7364b5fa96c2b26ccde7a3a296a9 (block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard ) For example, 1)

[PATCH 12/27] block: Remove some unnecessary bi_vcnt usage

2013-02-19 Thread Kent Overstreet
More prep work for immutable bvecs/effecient bio splitting - usage of bi_vcnt has to be auditing, so getting rid of all the unnecessary usage makes that easier. Plus, bio_segments() is really what this code wanted, as it respects the current value of bi_idx. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Thin provisioning SOFT_THRESHOLD error handling

2013-02-05 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Hannes Reinecke h...@suse.de wrote: Hi all, Thin-provisioned devices have the ability to set a 'soft threshold', which is triggered if the real free space for this device is beyond this mark. The intention behind this is to allow the system to induce some

[PATCH v4 08/24] block: Remove some unnecessary bi_vcnt usage

2012-10-15 Thread Kent Overstreet
More prep work for immutable bvecs/effecient bio splitting - usage of bi_vcnt has to be auditing, so getting rid of all the unnecessary usage makes that easier. Plus, bio_segments() is really what this code wanted, as it respects the current value of bi_idx. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

[PATCH v3 10/26] block: Remove some unnecessary bi_vcnt usage

2012-09-24 Thread Kent Overstreet
More prep work for immutable bvecs/effecient bio splitting - usage of bi_vcnt has to be auditing, so getting rid of all the unnecessary usage makes that easier. Plus, bio_segments() is really what this code wanted, as it respects the current value of bi_idx. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet