Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/6] blk-throttle: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW

Yu Kuai
2024-04-13T01:57:36Z

Hi,

在 2024/04/13 1:30, Tejun Heo 写道:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 04:00:54PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
>> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
>>
>> One the one hand, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL since 2017, and looks like
>> there are no users since then, and no testers and no developers, it's
>> just not active at all.
>>
>> On the other hand, even if the config is disabled, there are still many
>> fields in throtl_grp and throtl_data and many functions that are only
>> used for throtl low.
>>
>> At last, currently blk-throtl is initialized during disk initialization,
>> and destroyed during disk removal, and it exposes many functions to be
>> called directly from block layer. Hence I'm planning to optimize
>> blk-throtl and finially support building it as kernel module. Remove
>> throtl low will make the work much easier.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>
> I haven't seen any usage but let's see if anyone complains.

Thanks for the review!
Kuai

>
> Thanks.
>