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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>
Cc: Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, hare@suse.de, ming.lei@redhat.com,
	agk@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, axboe@kernel.dk, jack@suse.cz,
	johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	koct9i@gmail.com, steve@sk2.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel.tide@veeam.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] dm: new ioctl DM_DEV_REMAP_CMD
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:13:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210212161305.GB19424@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1612881028-7878-5-git-send-email-sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>

On Tue, Feb 09 2021 at  9:30am -0500,
Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com> wrote:

> New ioctl DM_DEV_REMAP_CMD allow to remap bio requests
> from regular block device to dm device.

I really dislike the (ab)use of "REMAP" for this. DM is and always has
been about remapping IO.  Would prefer DM_DEV_INTERPOSE_CMD

Similarly, all places documenting "remap" or variables with "remap"
changed to "interpose".

Also, any chance you'd be open to putting all these interposer specific
changes in dm-interposer.[ch] ?
(the various internal structs for DM core _should_ be available via dm-core.h)

Mike


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, pavel.tide@veeam.com,
	jack@suse.cz, corbet@lwn.net, johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ming.lei@redhat.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, steve@sk2.org,
	koct9i@gmail.com, agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5 4/6] dm: new ioctl DM_DEV_REMAP_CMD
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:13:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210212161305.GB19424@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1612881028-7878-5-git-send-email-sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>

On Tue, Feb 09 2021 at  9:30am -0500,
Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com> wrote:

> New ioctl DM_DEV_REMAP_CMD allow to remap bio requests
> from regular block device to dm device.

I really dislike the (ab)use of "REMAP" for this. DM is and always has
been about remapping IO.  Would prefer DM_DEV_INTERPOSE_CMD

Similarly, all places documenting "remap" or variables with "remap"
changed to "interpose".

Also, any chance you'd be open to putting all these interposer specific
changes in dm-interposer.[ch] ?
(the various internal structs for DM core _should_ be available via dm-core.h)

Mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-09 14:30 [PATCH v5 0/6] block-layer interposer Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] docs: device-mapper: add remap_and_filter Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30   ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] block: add blk_mq_is_queue_frozen() Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30   ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] block: add blk_interposer Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30   ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] dm: new ioctl DM_DEV_REMAP_CMD Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30   ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-10  6:54   ` kernel test robot
2021-02-12 16:13   ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2021-02-12 16:13     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] dm: add 'noexcl' option for dm-linear Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30   ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-11 17:51   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-02-11 17:51     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-02-12 11:34     ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-12 11:34       ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-12 16:06       ` Mike Snitzer
2021-02-12 16:06         ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-02-15 10:34         ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-15 10:34           ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-15 16:08           ` Mike Snitzer
2021-02-15 16:08             ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-02-24 10:46             ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-24 10:46               ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] docs: device-mapper: " Sergei Shtepa
2021-02-09 14:30   ` [dm-devel] " Sergei Shtepa

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