Re: dm: pass up rotational flag
From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 14:30:01 EST
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Allow the NONROT flag to be passed through to linear mappings if all
>> underlying device are non-rotational. Tools like ureadahead will
>> schedule IOs differently based on the rotational flag.
Mike> Thanks for doing this, looks good in general.
I'd rather we made the rotational property part of the topology instead
of having to special-case it in DM. I seem to recall posting a patch
that did that at some point but I can't seem to find it...
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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