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Commit 7d76345d authored by Kiyoshi Ueda's avatar Kiyoshi Ueda Committed by Alasdair G Kergon
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dm request: extend target interface



This patch adds the following target interfaces for request-based dm.

  map_rq    : for mapping a request

  rq_end_io : for finishing a request

  busy      : for avoiding performance regression from bio-based dm.
              Target can tell dm core not to map requests now, and
              that may help requests in the block layer queue to be
              bigger by I/O merging.
              In bio-based dm, this behavior is done by device
              drivers managing the block layer queue.
              But in request-based dm, dm core has to do that
              since dm core manages the block layer queue.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
parent 8fbf26ad
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