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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:36:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210810003608.GB101579@agk-cloud1.hosts.prod.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210804094147.459763-1-hch@lst.de>

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 11:41:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> allows device mapper to use the normal scheme
> of calling add_disk when it is ready to accept I/O.

For clarity, even after this patchset, the device is not ready to accept
I/O when add_disk is called.  It is ready to accept I/O later if a 
'resume' happens triggering the 'change' uevent that userspace reacts
to by setting up the /dev entries for it.
 
Alasdair


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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:36:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210810003608.GB101579@agk-cloud1.hosts.prod.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210804094147.459763-1-hch@lst.de>

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 11:41:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> allows device mapper to use the normal scheme
> of calling add_disk when it is ready to accept I/O.

For clarity, even after this patchset, the device is not ready to accept
I/O when add_disk is called.  It is ready to accept I/O later if a 
'resume' happens triggering the 'change' uevent that userspace reacts
to by setting up the /dev entries for it.
 
Alasdair

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-10  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-04  9:41 use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] block: make the block holder code optional Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] block: remove the extra kobject reference in bd_link_disk_holder Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] block: look up holders by bdev Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] block: support delayed holder registration Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <CGME20210810213058eucas1p109323e3c3ecaa76d37d8cf63b6d8ecfd@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2021-08-10 21:30     ` Marek Szyprowski
2021-08-10 21:30       ` [dm-devel] " Marek Szyprowski
2021-08-14 21:13   ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-14 21:13     ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-15  7:07     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-15  7:07       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-15 14:27       ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-15 14:27         ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-16  7:21         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-16  7:21           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-16 14:17           ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-16 14:17             ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-20 15:08             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-20 15:08               ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-21  3:17               ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-21  3:17                 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-18  2:51           ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-18  2:51             ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: cleanup cleanup_mapped_device Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] dm: move setting md->type into dm_setup_md_queue Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] dm: delay registering the gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-09 23:31   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-09 23:31     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10  0:17     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10  0:17       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 13:12     ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-08-10 13:12       ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-08-10 15:05       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 15:05         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2022-07-07  3:29   ` Yu Kuai
2022-07-07  3:29     ` [dm-devel] " Yu Kuai
2022-07-07  5:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-07  5:24       ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-07  7:20       ` Yu Kuai
2022-07-07  7:20         ` [dm-devel] " Yu Kuai
2022-07-15  3:24         ` Yu Kuai
2022-07-15  3:24           ` [dm-devel] " Yu Kuai
2022-08-01  1:04           ` Yu Kuai
2022-08-01  1:04             ` [dm-devel] " Yu Kuai
2021-08-04  9:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove support for delayed queue registrations Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04  9:41   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-09 17:51 ` use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2 Jens Axboe
2021-08-09 17:51   ` [dm-devel] " Jens Axboe
2021-08-10  0:36 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2021-08-10  0:36   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 14:41   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 14:41     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-19 15:58 ` holders not working properly, regression [was: Re: use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2] Mike Snitzer
2021-08-19 15:58   ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-08-19 18:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-19 18:05     ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-19 22:08     ` Mike Snitzer
2021-08-19 22:08       ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer

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