Enable dm-cache for kernel 3.9+
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Tue May 7 14:31:11 UTC 2013
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:50:19PM +0200, Vincent Stehlé wrote:
> While trying kernel from [1] I noticed that CONFIG_DM_CACHE was not enabled.
>
> Could someone enable CONFIG_DM_CACHE for the future kernel builds, please?
>
> FYI, dm-cache is a new dm target merged in kernel 3.9, which allows to
> use an SSD as a hard disk cache, for example (see [2]).
>
> (I already asked this question to the IRC channel #ubuntu-kernel, but as
> nobody answered I repost to the ml.)
This will be switched on I believe when mainline kernels start using the
saucy configuration. I thought this was already switched but it seems
the recent lab outage prevented that propogating. I have just pushed
the changes to the builder and re-requested v3.9 as a test.
-apw
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