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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] xen-blkfront: avoid to use start/stop queue
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:12:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170712031212.GF13036@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170711212444.ttmkvlxexuduzfcj@MacBook-Pro-de-Roger.local>

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Roger Pau Monn� wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 02:20:58AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > This interfaces will be removed soon, so use quiesce and
> > unquiesce instead, which should be more safe.
> > 
> > The only one usage will be removed in the following
> > congestion control patches.
> 
> Would it be better to simply fix blk_mq_{start/stop}_stopped_hw_queues
> rather than introducing a new interface?

No, we do not want to expose start/stop state to drivers any more, which
has caused enough trouble already, so these APIs need to be removed, and
quiesce/unquiesce is preferred way for this purpose, as you can see
the work done by Sagi Grimberg:

        http://marc.info/?t=149927415900006&r=1&w=2


Thanks,
Ming

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-12  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-11 18:20 [PATCH 0/6] blk-mq: introduce congestion control Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen-blkfront: avoid to use start/stop queue Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:41   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-07-12  2:52     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:41   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  2:59     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12  3:05     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 21:24   ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-07-12  3:12     ` Ming Lei [this message]
2017-07-11 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/6] SCSI: use blk_mq_run_hw_queues() in scsi_kick_queue() Ming Lei
2017-07-11 19:57   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  3:15     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12 15:12       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-13 10:23         ` Ming Lei
2017-07-13 17:44           ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] blk-mq: send the request to dispatch list if direct issue returns busy Ming Lei
2017-07-11 20:18   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  3:45     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 4/6] blk-mq: use EWMA to estimate congestion threshold Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:25   ` Jens Axboe
2017-07-12  2:30     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-12 15:39       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-13 10:43         ` Ming Lei
2017-07-13 14:56           ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-13 15:32             ` Ming Lei
2017-07-13 17:35               ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-11 18:39   ` Jens Axboe
2017-07-12  3:20     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 21:02   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-07-12  3:43     ` Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] blk-mq: introduce basic congestion control Ming Lei
2017-07-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 6/6] blk-mq: unexport APIs for start/stop queues Ming Lei

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