[dm-devel] Re: New read-balancing patch for dm-raid1.c
Jonathan E Brassow
jbrassow at redhat.com
Mon Oct 16 15:16:56 UTC 2006
good suggestion. I'll look into this.
brassow
On Oct 12, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:33:14AM -0500, Jon Brassow wrote:
>> This patch adds read balancing. The round-robin method is the first
>> to be implemented, but provisions are made for others to be
>> implemented
>> in the future.
>
> My first thought in looking over this is that it ought to share the
> existing
> dm-round-robin module used by multipath (which is already more
> flexible than
> this as paths can be weighted). It looks fairly straightforward to do
> this.
> (And we certainly shouldn't confuse people by having 'roundrobin' in
> one
> part of dm and 'round-robin' in another!)
>
> When we implement more complex load balancing policies, there seems
> little
> point doing everything twice, once for multipath and once for
> mirroring:-)
>
> Alasdair
> --
> agk at redhat.com
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