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From: Ren Mingxin <renmx@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	VIRTUAL <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] virtio_blk: use disk_name_format() to support mass of disks naming
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:14:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F765A72.6090006@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFO3S427vWXHBDaRmfwqZrGZ2Y8RPUn7CQswQou9EGMh43jU8Q@mail.gmail.com>

  Hi, He:

On 03/30/2012 07:22 PM, Asias He wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Ren Mingxin<renmx@cn.fujitsu.com>  wrote:
>>   The current virtblk's naming algorithm only supports 263  disks.
>> If there are mass of virtblks(exceeding 263), there will be disks
>> with the same name.
> This fix is pretty nice. However, current virtblk's naming still
> supports up to 18278 disks, no?
> ( index 0  ->  vda, index 18277 ->  vdzzz ).

Sorry, I intended to type 26^3+ (26^2+26)...
It may still be a restriction which should be improved though.

Thanks,
Ren

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-31  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30  9:50 [PATCH 0/4] block: move sd_format_disk_name() into block core as disk_name_format() Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] block: add function disk_name_format() into block core Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:52 ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] scsi: replace sd_format_disk_name() to disk_name_format() Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:53 ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] block: replace rssd_disk_name_format() " Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:53 ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30 23:54   ` Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONT - Type 2]
2012-03-30 23:54   ` Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONT - Type 2]
2012-03-30 23:54     ` Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONT - Type 2]
2012-04-02  1:21     ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-02  1:21       ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-02  1:21     ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] virtio_blk: use disk_name_format() to support mass of disks naming Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:53 ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30 11:22   ` Asias He
2012-03-30 11:22     ` Asias He
2012-03-31  1:14     ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-31  1:14     ` Ren Mingxin [this message]
2012-03-31  3:03       ` Asias He
2012-03-31  3:03         ` Asias He
2012-03-30 15:26   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-30 15:26     ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-30 15:28     ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-30 15:28       ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-02  1:19       ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-02  1:19       ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-02  7:20         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-02  7:20           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-02 18:52           ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-02 18:52             ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-02 18:56             ` James Bottomley
2012-04-02 19:00               ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-02 19:00                 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-04  8:01                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-04  8:01                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  3:47                   ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-09  3:47                   ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-09  7:33                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  7:33                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  7:50                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  7:50                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-02 18:56             ` James Bottomley
2012-03-30 15:38     ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-30 15:38     ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-02  1:18       ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-02  1:18       ` Ren Mingxin
2012-04-02  7:15     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-02  7:15       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-12 20:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2012-04-12 20:17       ` Jeff Garzik
2012-03-30  9:56 ` [PATCH 0/4] block: move sd_format_disk_name() into block core as disk_name_format() James Bottomley
2012-03-30 10:10   ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30 10:10   ` Ren Mingxin
2012-03-30  9:56 ` James Bottomley
2012-04-01 11:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-01 11:20   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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