From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262189AbVFHMRl (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262190AbVFHMRl (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:41 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:5557 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262189AbVFHMRf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:13:04 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Andrew Morton Cc: agk@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] [2.6.12-rc6-mm1] Handle READA requests in dm-mpath.c Message-ID: <20050608121304.GU27119@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20050608110436.GQ27119@marowsky-bree.de> <20050608043347.5db85317.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050608043347.5db85317.akpm@osdl.org> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2005-06-08T04:33:47, Andrew Morton wrote: > Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > > > READA errors failing with EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN do not constitute a valid > > reason for failing the path; this lead to erratic errors on DM multipath > > devices. This error can be safely propagated upwards without failing the > > path. > > > > Why do you describe this as a -mm patch? We want this in 2.6.12, no? Uhm, right. I just diff'ed it against -mm out of habit, I guess, because I also assumed you were the fastest path to Linus ;-) Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"