From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Lennart Poettering" <lennart@poettering.net>,
"Luca Boccassi" <bluca@debian.org>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Damien Le Moal" <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>,
"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Javier González" <javier@javigon.com>,
"Niklas Cassel" <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>,
"Johannes Thumshirn" <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
JeffleXu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] block: add a sequence number to disks
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:03:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfdd6f56-ce2b-ef74-27b1-83b922e5f7d9@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210623105858.6978-1-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>
On 6/23/21 12:58 PM, Matteo Croce wrote:
> From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
>
> With this series a monotonically increasing number is added to disks,
> precisely in the genhd struct, and it's exported in sysfs and uevent.
>
> This helps the userspace correlate events for devices that reuse the
> same device, like loop.
>
I'm failing to see the point here.
Apparently you are assuming that there is a userspace tool tracking
events, and has a need to correlate events related to different
instances of the disk.
But if you have an userspace application tracking events, why can't the
same application track the 'add' and 'remove' events to track the
lifetime of the devices, and implement its own numbering based on that?
Why do we need to burden the kernel with this?
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-23 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 10:58 [PATCH v3 0/6] block: add a sequence number to disks Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 10:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add disk sequence number Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 11:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 13:10 ` Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 13:51 ` Lennart Poettering
2021-06-23 14:01 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-23 14:07 ` Luca Boccassi
2021-06-23 14:21 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-23 14:34 ` Luca Boccassi
2021-06-23 14:55 ` Lennart Poettering
2021-06-23 14:12 ` Lennart Poettering
2021-06-23 15:02 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-23 15:34 ` Luca Boccassi
2021-06-23 15:48 ` Lennart Poettering
2021-06-23 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 10:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] block: add ioctl to read the " Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 10:58 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] block: refactor sysfs code Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 19:03 ` Matteo Croce
2021-06-24 6:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 10:58 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] block: export diskseq in sysfs Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 10:58 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] block: increment sequence number Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 10:58 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] loop: " Matteo Croce
2021-06-23 11:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 13:13 ` Luca Boccassi
2021-06-23 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 15:29 ` Lennart Poettering
2021-06-24 6:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-23 12:03 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2021-06-23 12:46 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] block: add a sequence number to disks Luca Boccassi
2021-06-23 14:07 ` Lennart Poettering
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