From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
"Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <msnitzer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: flush queued bios when the process blocks
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 09:08:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5384AA79.4010206@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1405271059190.27492@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
On 2014-05-27 09:03, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The block layer uses per-process bio list to avoid recursion in
> generic_make_request. When generic_make_request is called recursively, the
> bio is added to current->bio_list and the function returns immediatelly.
> The top-level instance of generic_make_requests takes bios from
> current->bio_list and processes them.
This really begs the question of why we just don't use the per-process
plugs for this. We already have scheduler hooks in place to flush those
at the appropriate time. Why are we reinventing something for
essentially the same thing?
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-27 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 15:03 [PATCH] block: flush queued bios when the process blocks Mikulas Patocka
2014-05-27 15:08 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-05-27 15:23 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-05-27 15:42 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-27 16:26 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-05-27 17:33 ` Mike Snitzer
2014-05-27 19:56 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-10-05 19:50 ` Mike Snitzer
2014-05-27 17:42 ` [PATCH] " Jens Axboe
2014-05-27 18:14 ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-27 19:59 ` Kent Overstreet
2014-05-27 19:56 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-05-27 20:06 ` Kent Overstreet
2014-05-29 23:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-05 20:59 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-06 13:28 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-06 13:47 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-06 14:10 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-06 14:26 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-06 18:17 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-06 18:50 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-06 20:16 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Snitzer
2015-10-06 20:26 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-08 15:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-08 15:08 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-09 19:52 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-09 19:59 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-14 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 for-4.4] block: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock Mike Snitzer
2015-10-14 21:44 ` Jeff Moyer
2015-10-17 16:04 ` Ming Lei
2015-10-20 19:57 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-20 20:03 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-21 16:38 ` Ming Lei
2015-10-21 21:49 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-10-22 1:53 ` Ming Lei
2015-10-15 3:27 ` [PATCH v2] block: flush queued bios when the process blocks Ming Lei
2015-10-15 8:06 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-16 3:08 ` Ming Lei
2015-10-16 15:29 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-10-17 15:54 ` Ming Lei
2015-10-17 15:54 ` Ming Lei
2015-10-09 11:58 ` kbuild test robot
2014-05-27 17:59 ` [PATCH] " Kent Overstreet
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-26 23:46 Mikulas Patocka
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