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From: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
To: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Cc: "Alasdair Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>,
	"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@kernel.org>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com,
	"Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] dm-thin: Allow specifying an offset
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 11:24:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+J7QrS7JqeNqbot@itl-email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0trDZ88Tcaf9Y75S-vB1vWXPN9UEsqPV1bTrkAtSYFfUngAQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 03:03:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Nack.  I'm not building a linear target into every other target.  Layering
> targets is simple.

It also introduces a performance penalty, which is measurable on some
workloads.  Even dm-linear is not free.  The crypt target also has this
feature, so there is precedent.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-07 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-07  1:18 [PATCH 1/2] Fail I/O to thin pool devices Demi Marie Obenour
2023-02-07  1:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] dm-thin: Allow specifying an offset Demi Marie Obenour
     [not found]   ` <CAJ0trDZ88Tcaf9Y75S-vB1vWXPN9UEsqPV1bTrkAtSYFfUngAQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-07 16:24     ` Demi Marie Obenour [this message]
     [not found] ` <CAJ0trDZsTcD43s3GQ7aKR_3eABWv0rREMrajw8xBQiu96X+B8w@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-07 16:19   ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Fail I/O to thin pool devices Demi Marie Obenour
2023-02-07 17:50     ` Zdenek Kabelac

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