Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:44:46 -0700 | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 02/12] dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info |
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:24:45PM +1000, Joseph Glanville wrote: > Hi Kent, Tejun > > On 9 August 2012 09:57, Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> wrote: > >> Also, how was this tested? > > > > Well, AFAICT the only request based dm target is multipath, and from the > > documentation I've seen it doesn't appear to work without multipath > > hardware, or at least I haven't seen it documented how. So, unless > > there's another user I missed it's not been tested. > > Multipath can be tested quite easily with a loopback scsi target, you > don't require specialized hardware. > The easiest way to do this would probably be the built in LIO target + > open_iscsi initiator. > > I haven't attempted running this current version of the patch series > but I haven't run into issues with bcache+multipath in the past.
Actually, I bet you have been running this code - do you think you could check the git log for the version you're running? That'd be awesome if you are.
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