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Message-ID: <yq11u134rmt.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:35:22 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@....net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: status of block-integrity
>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:
Christoph> We have the block integrity code to support DIF/DIX in the
Christoph> the tree for about 5 and a half years, and we still don't
Christoph> have a single consumer of it.
What do you mean? If you have a DIX-capable HBA (lpfc, qla2xxx, zfcp)
then integrity protection is active from the block layer down. The only
code that's not currently being exercised are the tag interleaving
functions. I was hoping the FS people would use them for back pointers
but nobody seemed to bite.
Christoph> Given that we'll have a lot of work to do in this area with
Christoph> block multiqueue I think it's time to either kill it off for
Christoph> good or make sure we can actually use and test it.
I don't understand why multiqueue would require a lot of work? It's just
an extra scatterlist per request.
And obviously, if there's anything that needs to be done in this area
I'll be happy to do so...
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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