Re: [PATCH 5.7 024/179] dm mpath: pass IO start time to path selector

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:35:13PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 087615bf3acdafd0ba7c7c9ed5286e7b7c80fe1b ]
> >
> > The HST path selector needs this information to perform path
> > prediction. For request-based mpath, struct request's io_start_time_ns
> > is used, while for bio-based, use the start_time stored in dm_io.
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> This patch is not -stable material.  It is only needed for a new feature
> merged in 5.8.

I've dropped it, thank you!

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Thanks,
Sasha