linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 18/21] nd_btt: atomic sector updates

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:24:42 -0600
From:	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, rafael@...nel.org, neilb@...e.de,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 18/21] nd_btt: atomic sector updates

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 09:34 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Vishal,
> 
> I'm mostly worried about handling scalability to large CPU counts
> properly.  If you think this is the best way to handle it that fine,
> but please document the decisions on the changelog in a similar form
> to what you did below.

Thanks Christoph.

I'll update the changelog for the next version. Scalability and
performance are of course at the top of my head - this implementation is
a first shot at what we think will work best, but if there are
experiments/changes/data that show otherwise, I'll be more than happy to
incorporate those.

	-Vishal

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