linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] Please revert a91a2785b20

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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:45:37 -0400
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snizer@...hat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [Regression] Please revert a91a2785b20

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes:

Thomas,

Thomas> But the changelog does not give the courtesy of explaining these
Thomas> changes. Also there is no fcking reason why the kernel cannot
Thomas> deal with the missing integrity capabilities of a drive just by
Thomas> emitting a warning msg and dealing gracefully with the outcome.

My mistake. I was made aware of it earlier today and I'm working on a
patch. Surprised we didn't see any reports of this in -next. It's been
in there for a while.

Thomas> All my RAID setups have been working perfectly fine until now,
Thomas> so what's the rationale to break this?

People were complaining about excessive mempool usage with the block
integrity bits enabled (thanks to MD and DM allocating a bioset per
device to prevent deadlocks).

Making allocation conditional meant we had to deal with memory
allocation errors in the setup path. I tested various combinations of on
and off but apparently not all off. Sorry about that.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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