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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/14] md: move two macros into md.h
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:52:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpbb6o87.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170327091553.GF6879@infradead.org>

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On Mon, Mar 27 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:53:25AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> 
>> I had the same concern when I looked at this patch firstly. The number for
>> raid1/10 doesn't need to be the same. But if we don't move the number to a
>> generic header, the third patch will become a little more complicated. I
>> eventually ignored this issue. If we really need different number for raid1/10,
>> lets do it at that time.
>
> Which brings up my usual queastion:  Is is really that benefitical for
> us to keep the raid1.c code around instead of making it a special short
> cut case in raid10.c?

Patches welcome.

They would need to handle write-mostly and write-behind.  They would
also need to avoid the assumption of a chunk size for RAID1.
Undoubtedly do-able.  Hard to say how beneficial it would be, or how much
it would cost.

NeilBrown

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/14] md: move two macros into md.h
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:52:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpbb6o87.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170327091553.GF6879@infradead.org>

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On Mon, Mar 27 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:53:25AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> 
>> I had the same concern when I looked at this patch firstly. The number for
>> raid1/10 doesn't need to be the same. But if we don't move the number to a
>> generic header, the third patch will become a little more complicated. I
>> eventually ignored this issue. If we really need different number for raid1/10,
>> lets do it at that time.
>
> Which brings up my usual queastion:  Is is really that benefitical for
> us to keep the raid1.c code around instead of making it a special short
> cut case in raid10.c?

Patches welcome.

They would need to handle write-mostly and write-behind.  They would
also need to avoid the assumption of a chunk size for RAID1.
Undoubtedly do-able.  Hard to say how beneficial it would be, or how much
it would cost.

NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-27  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16 16:12 [PATCH v3 00/14] md: cleanup on direct access to bvec table Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] md: raid1/raid10: don't handle failure of bio_add_page() Ming Lei
2017-03-27  9:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] md: move two macros into md.h Ming Lei
2017-03-24  5:57   ` NeilBrown
2017-03-24  5:57     ` NeilBrown
2017-03-24  6:30     ` Ming Lei
2017-03-24 16:53     ` Shaohua Li
2017-03-27  9:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-27  9:52         ` NeilBrown [this message]
2017-03-27  9:52           ` NeilBrown
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] md: prepare for managing resync I/O pages in clean way Ming Lei
2017-03-24  6:00   ` NeilBrown
2017-03-24  6:00     ` NeilBrown
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] md: raid1: simplify r1buf_pool_free() Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] md: raid1: don't use bio's vec table to manage resync pages Ming Lei
2017-07-09 23:09   ` NeilBrown
2017-07-09 23:09     ` NeilBrown
2017-07-10  3:35     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-10  4:13       ` Ming Lei
2017-07-10  4:38         ` NeilBrown
2017-07-10  4:38           ` NeilBrown
2017-07-10  7:25           ` Ming Lei
2017-07-10  7:25             ` Ming Lei
2017-07-10 19:05             ` Shaohua Li
2017-07-10 22:54               ` Ming Lei
2017-07-10 23:14               ` NeilBrown
2017-07-10 23:14                 ` NeilBrown
2017-07-12  1:40                 ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12 16:30                   ` Shaohua Li
2017-07-13  1:22                     ` Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] md: raid1: retrieve page from pre-allocated resync page array Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] md: raid1: use bio helper in process_checks() Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] block: introduce bio_copy_data_partial Ming Lei
2017-03-24  5:34   ` Shaohua Li
2017-03-24  5:34     ` Shaohua Li
2017-03-24 16:41   ` Jens Axboe
2017-03-24 16:41     ` Jens Axboe
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] md: raid1: move 'offset' out of loop Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] md: raid1: improve write behind Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] md: raid10: refactor code of read reshape's .bi_end_io Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] md: raid10: don't use bio's vec table to manage resync pages Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] md: raid10: retrieve page from preallocated resync page array Ming Lei
2017-03-16 16:12 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] md: raid10: avoid direct access to bvec table in handle_reshape_read_error Ming Lei

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