[dm-devel] block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead

[Jens Axboe]

On 2010-11-26 01:37, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Axboe <jaxboe at fusionio.com> writes:
> 
> Jens> Great, the two different values and needing to sync them was
> Jens> horrible.  What kind of testing did you do? Have to be a little
> Jens> extra careful at this point.
> 
> Yeah, we should probably let it soak a bit in -next just to make sure.
> 
> There really aren't many devices from this millennium that don't support
> clustering. Which I guess is why we haven't seen any problems.
> 
> I ended up disabling clustering in one of the FC drivers to test with a
> real workload. Threw in a BUG_ON(nsegs > queue_max_segments(q)) for good
> measure.
> 
> I also tested mixing and matching clustered and non-clustered bottom
> devices while stacking with DM.
> 
> New version below, fixing the things you and Matthew pointed out...

Thanks applied. Small plea for the future - please rewrite the subject
line to indicate a v2 (or whatever) of the patch. That will make them
harder to miss.

-- 
Jens Axboe