Re: cciss update [2/2] fixes for Steeleye Lifekeeper

[mikem]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:45:24PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 11:35, mikem wrote:
> > This patch only registers the controller if no logical drives are configured. It will not result in all possible logical drives being added. I added printk's to the driver to show me what I'm registering.
> > What I see is the controller registers every time, and only drives that are phsically configured are registered. That is true for reserved drives, also.
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> It also looks like this device is always the one used when the array
> comes on line, so it's only a shadow for as long as the actual array has
> none of it's storage configured.  OK.
> 
> The code also seems to imply that we use a single block queue for all of
> the array devices ... isn't that a bit inefficient?
> 
> James
Yes, it's not a perfect solution, but I have yet to complete my fairness algorithm for the per drive queues.

mikem
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