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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	<shirley.ma@oracle.com>, <allison.henderson@oracle.com>,
	<david@fromorbit.com>, <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	<hch@infradead.org>, <adilger@dilger.ca>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/9] block: add nr_mirrors to request_queue
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:04:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213160408.GW23000@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190213095044.29628-2-bob.liu@oracle.com>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 05:50:36PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
> @nr_mirrors is 1 by default which means only one copy, drivers e.g raid1 are
> responsible for setting the right value. The maximum value is
> BITS_PER_LONG which is 32 or 64. That should be big enough else retry lantency
> may be too high.

This is admittedly bike-shedding, so feel free to ignore, but...

In the case of Raid 6, "mirrors" will be a bit of a misnomer.  Would
"nr_recovery" be better?

Thanks for working on this!!  I would be interested in using this for
ext4 once it's available.

				- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-13  9:50 [RFC PATCH v2 0/9] Block/XFS: Support alternative mirror device retry Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/9] block: add nr_mirrors to request_queue Bob Liu
2019-02-13 10:26   ` Andreas Dilger
2019-02-13 16:04   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-02-14  5:57     ` Bob Liu
2019-02-18 17:56       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/9] block: add rd_hint to bio and request Bob Liu
2019-02-13 16:18   ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-14  6:10     ` Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/9] md:raid1: set mirrors correctly Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/9] md:raid1: rd_hint support and consider stacked layer case Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/9] Add b_alt_retry to xfs_buf Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/9] xfs: Add b_rd_hint " Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 7/9] xfs: Add device retry Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 8/9] xfs: Rewrite retried read Bob Liu
2019-02-13  9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 9/9] xfs: Add tracepoints and logging to alternate device retry Bob Liu
2019-02-18  8:08 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/9] Block/XFS: Support alternative mirror " jianchao.wang
2019-02-19  1:29   ` jianchao.wang
2019-02-18 21:31 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-19  2:55   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-19  3:33     ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-28 14:22   ` Bob Liu
2019-02-28 21:49     ` Dave Chinner
2019-03-03  2:37       ` Bob Liu
2019-03-03 23:18         ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-28 23:28     ` Andreas Dilger
2019-03-01 14:14       ` Bob Liu
2019-03-03 23:45       ` Dave Chinner

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