[dm-devel] [PATCH 14/15] block/bsg: move queue creation into bsg_setup_queue

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Jan 11 09:01:12 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:59:17AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> I'd advocate to discuss this at LSF.
> Now that Mike moved the bio-based mpath stuff back in things got even
> more complex.

Yeah.  If we'd _only_ have bio based support it would simplify things
a lot, but as a third parallel path it's not exactly making things easier.

> I'll be posting a patchset for reimplementing multipath as a stand-alone
> driver shortly; that'll give us a good starting point on how we want
> multipath to evolve.
> 
> Who knows; we might even manage to move multipath out of device-mapper
> altogether.
> That would make Mike very happy, and I wouldn't mind, either :-)

Heh.  I'm curious how you want to do that while keeping existing setups
working, though.




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