Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 06:36:20 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] block device stacking support, raid-2.3.47-B6 |
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>- renaming ->make_request_fn() to ->logical_volume_fn is both misleading > and unnecessery.
Note that with my proposal it was make_request_fn to be misleading because all the code run within the callback had anything to do with the make_request code.
>i've added the good bits (i hope i found all of them) from Andrea's patch >as well: the end_io() fix in md.c, the ->make_request() change returning >IO errors, and avoiding an unnecessery get_queue() in the fast path.
Ok.
> - device resolves recursion internally and returns 0 (future RAID0), > returns 1 if recursion cannot be resolved internally.
I don't think it worth to handle such case if it costs something for the other cases. I'll check and test the code on the LVM side soon.
Andrea
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