[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:42:48AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 10:23:41 Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 22.03.10 10:15 >>> > > > > > >On Monday 22 March 2010 09:47:40 Jan Beulich wrote: > > >> Based on the location of the file patched, it this would seem to be > > >> targeted at the 2.6.18 tree, but then 2.6.18 does not have a > > >> revalidate_disk() function (introduced only in .28). What's the deal > > >> here? Should this perhaps be carried out by open coding in blkfront > > >> what .28 does? > > >> > > >> Thanks, Jan > > > > > >Hi Jan, > > > > > >These patches are based on the Suse Xen-kernel, which are based on the > > > 2.6.30 kernel (or in that range) > > >This patch applies cleanly to the xen-kernel for Gentoo which is based on > > >2.6.29. > > > > I understand that. But if the original patch has an issue, fixed by the > > subsequently submitted one, then 2.6.18 (and other pre-.28 forward > > ported kernels that would make use of the original patch) supposedly > > also suffers from it, and hence also would need a respective fix. > > True, as this patch uses a function that wasn't introduced before 2.6.28, > then > the patch would need to be applied to 2.6.28+ or one that has that function > back-ported. > RHEL5 2.6.18 kernels do have SCSI online resizing support. Redhat guys backported it for RHEL 5.3 (2.6.18-128). Grabbing the patches from the latest el5 kernel might help. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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