Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] block: add iopoll method to support bio-based IO polling

Mike Snitzer
2021-01-27T17:18:45Z

On Mon, Jan 25 2021 at 7:13am -0500,
Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> ->poll_fn was introduced in commit ea435e1b9392 ("block: add a poll_fn
> callback to struct request_queue") to support bio-based queues such as
> nvme multipath, but was later removed in commit 529262d56dbe ("block:
> remove ->poll_fn").
>
> Given commit c62b37d96b6e ("block: move ->make_request_fn to struct
> block_device_operations") restore the possibility of bio-based IO
> polling support by adding an ->iopoll method to gendisk->fops.
> Elevate bulk of blk_mq_poll() implementation to blk_poll() and reduce
> blk_mq_poll() to blk-mq specific code that is called from blk_poll().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
> Suggested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>