[LU-8844] Delete llite lloop with fire!!! Created: 16/Nov/16 Updated: 30/Jan/22 Resolved: 17/Dec/16 |
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| Status: | Resolved |
| Project: | Lustre |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | Lustre 2.10.0 |
| Fix Version/s: | Lustre 2.10.0 |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Minor |
| Reporter: | James A Simmons | Assignee: | James A Simmons |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
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| Rank (Obsolete): | 9223372036854775807 | ||||||||||||||||
| Description |
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With the migration of lustre to clio the llite lloop driver's performance advantage over the standard loop back driver disappeared. Also lloop never functioned on non-x86 platforms. With new kernels (4.5+) loop back devices supporting directIO it make even more of a case to delete llite lloop driver. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Gerrit Updater [ 16/Nov/16 ] |
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James Simmons (uja.ornl@yahoo.com) uploaded a new patch: http://review.whamcloud.com/23817 |
| Comment by Peter Jones [ 17/Nov/16 ] |
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Thanks James |
| Comment by Gerrit Updater [ 17/Dec/16 ] |
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Oleg Drokin (oleg.drokin@intel.com) merged in patch https://review.whamcloud.com/23817/ |
| Comment by Peter Jones [ 17/Dec/16 ] |
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Landed for 2.10 |