[dm-devel] [PATCH 04/22] block: Abstract out bvec iterator

[Ed Cashin]

On Aug 8, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:04:36PM -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> 
>>> Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
>>> implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
>>> member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
>>> things.
>> 
>> Hi, Kent Overstreet.  Thanks for Cc'ing me and for the promising work.
>> 
>> Were you able to do sanity tests with aoe this time around?  Last time, basic I/O was not working with the immutable biovec patches applied.
>> 
>> Here is my 28 June email about my experiences with git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache.git at that time.  It also includes information about creating an easy software-only aoe test environment.
>> 
>>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1505222/focus=1517924
> 
> Hey, thanks for testing it - sorry, I think I remember seeing that email
> last time and got sidetracked before I got around to setting up some
> tests.

No worries.

> I think I've got it working now, it's running the same stress tests I
> use for bcache. Here's a fixed patch, I broke the aoe changes out into
> their own patch since they were more involved than most of the others:

I had added your git tree as a remote and checked out the for-jens branch.  This patch conflicts with some of the changes in that patch, so I could use a pointer as to which base this new patch applies to.

If it's already in some branch in linux-bcache, I can just use it there, and that's even more convenient.

> (I am seeing a bug where it's getting stuck after running stress tests
> for awhile, but I can reproduce that without the aoe changes too...)

Just so I know what to look for, what does that behavior look like?  I/O stops going and procs get stuck in disk sleep, maybe?

Thanks.

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  Ed Cashin
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