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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	dm-crypt@saout.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Christian Schmidt <schmidt@digadd.de>
Subject: Re: dm-crypt parallelization patches
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:10:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130409181031.GC6186@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1304091402150.10025@file.rdu.redhat.com>

Hey,

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 02:08:06PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Hmmm? Why not just keep the issuing order along with plugging
> > boundaries?
> 
> What do you mean?
> 
> I used to have a patch that keeps order of requests as they were 
> introduced, but sorting the requests according to sector number is a bit 
> simpler.

You're still destroying the context information.  Please just keep the
issuing order along with plugging boundaries.

> > As I wrote before, please use bio_associate_current().  Currently,
> > dm-crypt is completely messing up all the context information that cfq
> > depends on to schedule IOs.  Of course, it doesn't perform well.
> 
> bio_associate_current() is only valid on a system with cgroups and there 
> are no cgroups on the kernel where I tested it. It is an empty function:
> 
> static inline int bio_associate_current(struct bio *bio) { return -ENOENT; }

Yeah, because blkcg was the only user.  Please feel free to drop the
ifdefs.  It covers both iocontext and cgroup association.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26  3:47 dm-crypt performance Mikulas Patocka
2013-03-26  6:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-03-26 12:27 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2013-03-26 20:05   ` Milan Broz
2013-03-26 20:28     ` Mike Snitzer
2013-03-26 20:58       ` Milan Broz
2013-03-28 18:53       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-28 19:33         ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-28 19:44           ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-28 20:38             ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-28 20:45               ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 17:51                 ` dm-crypt parallelization patches Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-09 17:57                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 18:08                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-09 18:10                       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-04-09 18:42                         ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-09 18:57                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 19:13                             ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-09 19:42                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-09 19:52                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 20:32                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-09 21:02                               ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 21:03                                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 21:07                               ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-09 21:18                                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-10 19:24                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-10 23:42                                     ` [PATCH] make dm and dm-crypt forward cgroup context (was: dm-crypt parallelization patches) Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-10 23:50                                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-11 19:49                                         ` [PATCH v2] " Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-11 19:52                                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-11 20:00                                             ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-12  0:06                                               ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-12  0:22                                                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-12  5:59                                                   ` [PATCH v2] make dm and dm-crypt forward cgroup context Milan Broz
2013-04-12 18:17                                                   ` [PATCH v2] make dm and dm-crypt forward cgroup context (was: dm-crypt parallelization patches) Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-12 18:01                                               ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-12 18:29                                                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-15 13:02                                                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-16 17:24                                                     ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-16 19:41                                                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-18 16:47                                                       ` Mike Snitzer
2013-04-18 17:03                                                         ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 18:50                                                           ` Mike Snitzer
2013-05-22 19:48                                                             ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-09 18:36                   ` dm-crypt parallelization patches Vivek Goyal
     [not found]     ` <5151FF82.6090405-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-09 18:08       ` [dm-devel] dm-crypt performance Mikulas Patocka
2013-04-09 18:59         ` [dm-crypt] " Milan Broz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-03 19:06 dm-crypt parallelization patches Mikulas Patocka
2013-09-03 20:07 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-11 23:03   ` Mikulas Patocka
2013-09-11 23:33     ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-12  3:51     ` Milan Broz
2013-09-03 20:49 ` Milan Broz

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