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From: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	snitzer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Generate uevents for all DM events
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:30:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2b3147e-c542-b449-e69a-2dce050c29a6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161005174358.GD28416@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>

On 10/05/2016 10:43 AM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:06:41AM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
>> My project *would* like this added sooner, so I'll work on a revised
>> patchset that uses netlink instead of uevents, and will also work on a
>> revision to uevents.txt that talks about KOBJ_CHANGE and when it should
>> and should not be used, as described by agk, to help out the next person.
>
> netlink might still be overkill for this at this stage, if it's only
> making one thread able to monitor multiple devices efficiently.
>
> Let's find out your requirements and see if there's anything different from
> the ones we've debated before.

Yeah just like Hannes said, I just want to get dm events for multiple dm 
devices without burning a thread for each device. After your 
clarification, netlink seems like the best option and not overkill.

Give me a few days and I can have something for you to review.

Thanks -- Regards -- Andy

      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-05 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-03 19:22 [PATCH 0/9] Generate uevents for all DM events Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 1/9] dm: Do not export dm_send_uevents Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/9] dm: Move multipath-specific stuff out of dm-uevent.c Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 3/9] dm: Inline dm_build_path_uevent into dm_path_uevent Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 4/9] dm: Update dm-uevent.txt Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 5/9] dm: Rename dm_build_uevent to dm_uevent_build Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 6/9] dm: Rename dm_event_add to dm_event_queue Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 7/9] dm: Implement dm_uevent_add() Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 8/9] dm: Generate uevents for thin targets Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:23 ` [PATCH 9/9] dm: Generate uevents for other targets Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:29 ` [PATCH 0/9] Generate uevents for all DM events Mike Snitzer
2016-10-04  7:20 ` Greg KH
2016-10-04 23:39   ` Andy Grover
2016-10-05  0:40     ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2016-10-05  6:26       ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-10-05  6:51       ` Greg KH
2016-10-05 17:06         ` Andy Grover
2016-10-05 17:43           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2016-10-05 22:30             ` Andy Grover [this message]

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