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Message-ID: <CE20190F.5958F%andreas.dilger@intel.com> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:57:22 +0000 From: "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Xiong Zhou <jencce.kernel@...il.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging/lustre: lloop depends on BLOCK On 2013/08/01 2:45 AM, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org> wrote: >On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:29:51AM +0800, Xiong Zhou wrote: >> From: Xiong Zhou <jencce.kernel@...il.com> >> >> In the lustre client driver, lloop depends on BLOCK. Add an >> option for this dependence. Last version of this patch makes >> LUSTRE_FS depends on BLOCK. >> Remove unnecessary jdb head files which depends on BLOCK. > >The driver should be removed, a filesystem has no business bringing >its own loop driver. It provides significant performance improvement for network IO on Lustre. It bypasses DLM locking in Lustre and the VFS layer on the client, copying in the loop driver, and page-by-page IO submission in the normal IO path. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Software Architect Intel High Performance Data Division -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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