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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:25:08 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Frank Ren" <frankrq2009@....com>, "mingo" <mingo@...e.hu>,
"a.p.zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
"jens.axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...nel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: high iowait problem(Bug 12309 on bugzilla.kernel.org)
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
Andrew> I'm seeing just one device-mapper change whcih went in over that
Andrew> timeframe:
Andrew> : commit e0f5cfa7c18b411634e73923841eccd3a4c0ce7f
Andrew> : Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Andrew> : Date: Mon Jan 11 03:21:50 2010 -0500
Andrew> :
Andrew> : DM: Fix device mapper topology stacking
The topology changes do not modify anything in our runtime I/O path.
They only come into play during filesystem or logical volume creation on
top of devices that support reporting alignment/physical block size.
And you need recent dm and filesystem utilities for that to work.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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