From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752024AbXBJWfh (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:35:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752053AbXBJWfh (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:35:37 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38878 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752024AbXBJWfg (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:35:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:35:13 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: Heiko Carstens Cc: Andrew Morton , mbroz@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch Message-ID: <20070210223513.GA7201@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Heiko Carstens , Andrew Morton , mbroz@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070208150710.1324f6b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070210095858.GA8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070210095858.GA8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alasdair G Kergon 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 Message-ID: <20070210223513.GA7201@agk.surrey.redhat.com> References: <20070208150710.1324f6b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070210095858.GA8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070210095858.GA8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids 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