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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	mbroz@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:35:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070210223513.GA7201@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070210095858.GA8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:58:58AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Alasdair, is dm already fixed or is there any chance that it will
> ever get fixed?

I still expect us to get this changed within the next few months.  We've
dealt with the changes necessary to the crypt target for this.  The final
problem remaining is the core dm bio splitting code, and there's a related
locking problem in that code to tackle at the same time.

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:35:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070210223513.GA7201@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070210095858.GA8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:58:58AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Alasdair, is dm already fixed or is there any chance that it will
> ever get fixed?

I still expect us to get this changed within the next few months.  We've
dealt with the changes necessary to the crypt target for this.  The final
problem remaining is the core dm bio splitting code, and there's a related
locking problem in that code to tackle at the same time.

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-10 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 23:07 -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 Andrew Morton
2007-02-08 23:12 ` Roland Dreier
2007-02-08 23:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-08 23:44   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 15:02     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-09 10:57   ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-02-09 11:24     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-09 11:39       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 12:32         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-09 14:05           ` deweerdt
2007-02-09 13:04         ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-09 12:27           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-10 11:42       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-10 14:19         ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-02-08 23:34 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-02-08 23:53   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09  0:55     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-09  1:00       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09  5:32 ` Bharata B Rao
2007-02-09  8:26   ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-02-09  9:05     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 10:10       ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-02-09  9:54 ` Lenar Lõhmus
2007-02-09 10:12   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 12:48     ` James
2007-02-09 12:59     ` Lenar Lõhmus
2007-02-09 17:35 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-09 21:45   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 21:49     ` Russell King
2007-02-09 21:53       ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-09 22:03         ` Russell King
2007-02-09 22:12           ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-09 22:42             ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-10  2:05           ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-09 22:00       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 22:06         ` Russell King
2007-02-09 21:59     ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-09 22:50       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-02-10 10:22         ` Heiko Carstens
2007-02-10 10:32           ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-10 21:34             ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-11  4:53               ` Davide Libenzi
2007-02-11 15:33               ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-11 16:09                 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-11 16:14               ` Heiko Carstens
2007-02-11 16:34                 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-02-11 18:01                 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-10 21:05           ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-11 10:37             ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-10 13:03   ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-09 19:37 ` Alan
2007-02-09 21:51   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-10  1:15     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2007-02-10  1:29       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-10 13:06   ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-10 13:48     ` Alan
2007-02-10 14:43       ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 20:56     ` Doug Thompson
2007-02-12 21:46       ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 22:45         ` Doug Thompson
2007-02-09 22:18 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-02-10  9:58 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch Heiko Carstens
2007-02-10 22:35   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2007-02-10 22:35     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-02-11  0:31 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 Dave Jones

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