Re: Suspend 2 merge: 50/51: Device mapper support.

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 15:20:19 EST


[Quick commment only - travelling]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 06:57:07AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> If, therefore, we we're using DM crypt to do our
> I/O, it will help if we can either get it to allocate the memory it will
> need prior to us preparing the metadata, or get from it an amount of
> memory to include in the pool, given the maximum amount of I/O we intend
> to have on the fly at once.

But where does dm-crypt use dm-io?
dm_get_pages is used by snapshots, mirrors etc.

Alasdair
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