From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
"Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] block: use a driver-specific handler for the "inflight" value
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:18:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181114151848.GA22138@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181108170701.GA29107@redhat.com>
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 12:07:01PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Discussed doing that with Jens and reported as much here:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2018-November/msg00068.html
>
> And Jens gave additional context for why yet another attempt to switch
> block core's in_flight to percpu counters is doomed (having already been
> proposed and rejected twice):
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2018-November/msg00071.html
>
> And yes, definitely should've cc'd linux-block (now added).
So how is dm different from the the other 3 handful of drivers using
the make_request interface that the per-cpu counters work for dm and
not the others?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 15:18 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20181106213858.391264280@debian-a64.vm>
[not found] ` <20181108145240.GA20087@infradead.org>
2018-11-08 17:07 ` [patch 5/5] block: use a driver-specific handler for the "inflight" value Mike Snitzer
2018-11-14 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-11-14 15:34 ` Mike Snitzer
2018-11-14 22:49 ` Mikulas Patocka
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