From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
Steve Hodgson <steve@purestorage.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add blockconsole version 1.1
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:39:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120725163905.GA28036@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201207250917.09516.tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
On Wed, 25 July 2012 09:17:09 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>
> As far as I know there is nothing like netpoll in the block layer so it has to
> be a lot less reliable than netconsole. Especially with delaying write out to
> a workqueue. Anyway, I am not arguing, just saying in my opinion those caveats
> are worth documenting.
...
> My point was that it's reliability will differ depending on the block device
> in use, which is unlike netconsole. Again I am not arguing against the
> feature, but if you don't see things like these are worth documenting I give
> up.
I have nothing against documenting things. Can you suggest something
better than "reliability of blockconsole will depend on the
reliability of the underlying storage layer", which sounds rather
obvious?
Jörn
--
I don't understand it. Nobody does.
-- Richard P. Feynman
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-25 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 20:59 [RFC][PATCH] add blockconsole Jörn Engel
2012-04-25 13:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-25 13:25 ` Jörn Engel
2012-04-25 15:52 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-07-12 17:46 ` [PATCH] add blockconsole version 1.1 Jörn Engel
2012-07-13 13:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-13 16:20 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-13 21:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-16 12:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-18 18:53 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-18 21:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-18 21:08 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-19 9:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-23 20:04 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 15:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 14:53 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 16:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 17:52 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 20:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 10:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-14 11:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-23 14:33 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2012-07-23 20:02 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 8:01 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2012-07-24 14:38 ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-25 8:17 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2012-07-25 16:39 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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