Re: [1/1] Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

2007-08-31 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:20:35PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Resubmitting a bio or submitting a dependent bio from > inside a block driver does not need to be throttled because all > resources required to guarantee completion must have been obtained > _before_ the bio was allowed to procee

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 14/18] dm: netlink add to core

2007-07-12 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:37:43PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > This of course assumes things are a good fit or the other pieces > can be made to be a good fit. Currently I don't see the what makes > device mapper's events not fit the existing models, and I don't > see it in the description f