Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:23:32PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Christoph, > > > can we get this reviewed and merge before the end of the merge window? > > That gets the clustering put of the way for the multipage-biovec work > > from Ming which we want to land in the block tree early in

Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-18 Thread Martin K. Petersen
Jens, > You can add my reviewed-by to 10 and add that one too, that makes more > sense than me adding it for a post-merge pull. But either way works > for me. OK, done. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering

Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On 12/18/18 9:23 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Christoph, > >> can we get this reviewed and merge before the end of the merge window? >> That gets the clustering put of the way for the multipage-biovec work >> from Ming which we want to land in the block tree early in the next >> merge window

Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-18 Thread Martin K. Petersen
Christoph, > can we get this reviewed and merge before the end of the merge window? > That gets the clustering put of the way for the multipage-biovec work > from Ming which we want to land in the block tree early in the next > merge window. I have been somewhat hesitant to apply this just befo

Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 08:47:48AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 12/18/18 8:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Martin and others: >> >> can we get this reviewed and merge before the end of the merge window? >> That gets the clustering put of the way for the multipage-biovec work >> from Ming w

Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-17 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 12/18/18 8:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Martin and others: can we get this reviewed and merge before the end of the merge window? That gets the clustering put of the way for the multipage-biovec work from Ming which we want to land in the block tree early in the next merge window. Have w

Re: remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Martin and others: can we get this reviewed and merge before the end of the merge window? That gets the clustering put of the way for the multipage-biovec work from Ming which we want to land in the block tree early in the next merge window.

remove the "clustering" flag V2

2018-12-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
The block layer has been carrying around a magic clustering flag, which is an artefact of prehistoric scsi layer design decisions. Originally it controller if any segment merging happens at all for a given LLLD, but with merging moving to the block layer and massively more complex now it now essen