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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests de

To: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests defer pending ones.
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:19:18 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:31:47PM -0700, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:13 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:42:28AM -0700, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:03 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > > In the case at hand, increasing the ring size was way more productive.
> > > > > At which point the queue depth multiplies as well. And I currently
> > > > > expect that the longer it gets the more urgent the issue you describe
> > > > > will be.
> > > > 
> > > > You wouldn't have patches for that somewhere tucked away? I am going 
> > > > over
> > > > the patches for 3.1 xen-blkback and was thinking to have them all 
> > > > queued up and
> > > > test them all at once..
> > > 
> > > I was going to send the kernel patch right after, just to discover that
> > > xen-blkback lacks some of the synchronization items the original one was
> > > based on. It's coming, but it's rather going to be a series.
> > 
> > That is fine. Please also CC lkml when posting the series. Thanks!
> 
> That's a more interesting thing, actually: Do you plan to maintain this

That is my plan.
> stuff? Because xen-blkback presently has no dedicated MAINTAINERS entry,

You are right. I should send a patch to explicitly state it, even thought this:

$scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/block/xen-blkback/
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:31/32=97%)
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:2/32=6%)
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:2/32=6%)
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

Kind of makes me the top choice.
> iirc, so I guess it defaults to Jens.

Well, everything under drivers/block _has_ to eventually go through Jens.
It can go first through xen-devel to make sure there is nothing bogus, and
be reviewed here. And I can collect the patches, stick them in a branch,
run through the Xen gauntlet tests and then ask Jens to GIT PULL them.

It does not hurt to additionaly go through LKML - more eyes the better.
> 
> It might indeed make more sense to collect tested batches, and submit
> them as such.

<nods> So far I've:

    xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests defer pending ones.

(#stable/for-jens)

And I wouldn't mind putting some more there before I start cranking some
tests.

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