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List:       dm-devel
Subject:    Re: [dm-devel] RFC: dm-switch target [v2]
From:       Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= <pasik () iki ! fi>
Date:       2011-10-22 15:08:24
Message-ID: 20111022150824.GG12984 () reaktio ! net
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Jim_Ramsay@DELL.com wrote:
> Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:19:24PM -0400, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> >> We propose a new DM target, dm-switch, which can be used to
> >> efficiently implement a mapping of IOs to underlying block devices in
> >> scenarios where there are: (1) a large number of address regions, (2)
> >> a fixed size of these address regions, (3) no pattern than allows for
> >> a compact description with something like the dm-stripe target.
> >
> > Great, I've been waiting for this module :)
> =

> Thanks, it's great to hear the interest!
> =

> > Do you guys have some userland tool/script to populate the page
> > table in dm-switch, or is there some other way to test this
> > (with eql storage) ?
> =

> We are planning on providing some sample code, which will
> demonstrate how to upload a page table from userland via the
> netlink socket.
> =


Hello again,

Any news about this sample code? =


I noticed you guys just posted v3 of the patch, =

so it would be nice to try it out.

-- Pasi

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