Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
[reviving an old thread] On 6/22/20 4:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 6/19/20 11:16 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: 19.06.2020 22:56, Eric Blake wrote: From: John Snow This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation

Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-06-23 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 19.06.2020 um 21:56 hat Eric Blake geschrieben: > From: John Snow > > This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because > there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or > won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into block-dirty-bitmap-merge. > > It wa

Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-06-23 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
23.06.2020 00:44, Eric Blake wrote: On 6/19/20 11:16 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: 19.06.2020 22:56, Eric Blake wrote: From: John Snow This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or won't hang

Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-06-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 6/19/20 11:16 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: 19.06.2020 22:56, Eric Blake wrote: From: John Snow This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into b

Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-06-19 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
19.06.2020 22:56, Eric Blake wrote: From: John Snow This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into block-dirty-bitmap-merge. It was designed with different p

[PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-06-19 Thread Eric Blake
From: John Snow This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into block-dirty-bitmap-merge. It was designed with different possible population patterns in mind, b