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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:59:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161102145948.GA14307@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1954bf49-eeff-0b16-3cf9-7d7d02f25562@fb.com>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 11/02/2016 08:52 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
>>> blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
>>> sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
>>> state.
>>
>> what is the use case for the legacy request tracking?
>
> Buffered writeback code uses the same base. Additionally, it could
> replace some user space tracking for latency outliers that people are
> currently running.

Ok.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-01 21:05 [PATCHSET] block: IO polling improvements Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 21:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 22:25   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-11-02  5:37     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-02 14:55     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:59       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-11-03 11:17   ` Ming Lei
2016-11-03 13:38     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-03 14:57       ` Ming Lei
2016-11-03 16:55         ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-04 23:13           ` Ming Lei
2016-11-05 20:49             ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-05 20:59             ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-03 14:10   ` Bart Van Assche
2016-11-03 14:18     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 21:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] block: move poll code to blk-mq Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 21:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] blk-mq: implement hybrid poll mode for sync O_DIRECT Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-03 12:27   ` Ming Lei
2016-11-03 13:41     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-03 14:01   ` Bart Van Assche
2016-11-03 14:15     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 21:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] blk-mq: make the polling code adaptive Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:51 ` [PATCHSET] block: IO polling improvements Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-02 14:54   ` Jens Axboe

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