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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: "Nilay Shroff" <nilay@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	"Shinichiro Kawasaki" <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>,
	"Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 07/20] block: prevent adding/deleting disk during updating nr_hw_queues
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:04:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250422070432.GB30990@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aAWv3NPtNIKKvJZc@fedora>

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:39:24AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > In my view, RCU is optimized for read-heavy workloads with:
> > - Non-blocking readers
> 
> srcu allows blocking reader

It does.  But it's certainly not optimized for long blocking readers.

> Basically I agree with you that rwsem(instead of rwlock) should match with
> this case in theory, but I feel that rwsem is stronger than srcu from lock
> viewpoint, and we will add new dependency if rwsem is held inside
> ->store(), such as the following splat.

How does manually implementing a reader/write lock using SRCU avoid
that dependency vs just hiding it?

I'd rather sort this out as a rwsem is very natural her as Nilay pointed
out, and also avoids the whole giv up and retry pattern.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-22  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-18 16:36 [PATCH V2 00/20] block: unify elevator changing and fix lockdep warning Ming Lei
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 01/20] block: move blk_mq_add_queue_tag_set() after blk_mq_map_swqueue() Ming Lei
2025-04-19  8:57   ` Yu Kuai
2025-04-19 10:25   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-21 12:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  6:00   ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 02/20] block: move ELEVATOR_FLAG_DISABLE_WBT as request queue flag Ming Lei
2025-04-19  8:59   ` Yu Kuai
2025-04-19 14:52   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-21 12:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  6:01   ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 03/20] block: don't call freeze queue in elevator_switch() and elevator_disable() Ming Lei
2025-04-19  9:01   ` Yu Kuai
2025-04-21 12:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  4:00     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-22  7:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  6:02   ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 04/20] block: add two helpers for registering/un-registering sched debugfs Ming Lei
2025-04-19  9:18   ` Yu Kuai
2025-04-19 10:27   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-21 12:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  6:04   ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 05/20] block: move sched debugfs register into elvevator_register_queue Ming Lei
2025-04-19  9:28   ` Yu Kuai
2025-04-19 10:28   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-21 12:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  6:06   ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 06/20] block: add & pass 'struct gendisk_data' for retrying add/del disk in updating nr_hw_queues Ming Lei
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 07/20] block: prevent adding/deleting disk during " Ming Lei
2025-04-19 11:20   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-21  2:39     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-22  7:04       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-04-22  9:29         ` Ming Lei
2025-04-22 10:26           ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 08/20] block: don't allow to switch elevator if updating nr_hw_queues is in-progress Ming Lei
2025-04-19 11:22   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 09/20] block: simplify elevator rebuild for updating nr_hw_queues Ming Lei
2025-04-19 11:25   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 10/20] block: add helper of elevator_change() Ming Lei
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 11/20] block: move blk_unregister_queue() & device_del() after freeze wait Ming Lei
2025-04-19 12:38   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-22 10:50     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 12/20] block: add `struct elv_change_ctx` for unifying elevator_change Ming Lei
2025-04-19 12:40   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-22  7:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-22  8:36     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-23  7:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 13/20] block: unifying elevator change Ming Lei
2025-04-19 13:26   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-24  9:02     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 14/20] block: pass elevator_queue to elv_register_queue & unregister_queue Ming Lei
2025-04-19 13:28   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 15/20] block: fail to show/store elevator sysfs attribute if elevator is dying Ming Lei
2025-04-19 13:45   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 16/20] block: move elv_register[unregister]_queue out of elevator_lock Ming Lei
2025-04-19 13:55   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-22 10:53     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-22 11:06       ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-22 11:14         ` Ming Lei
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 17/20] block: move debugfs/sysfs register out of freezing queue Ming Lei
2025-04-19 13:57   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:36 ` [PATCH V2 18/20] block: remove several ->elevator_lock Ming Lei
2025-04-19 14:17   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:37 ` [PATCH V2 19/20] block: move hctx cpuhp add/del out of queue freezing Ming Lei
2025-04-19 14:20   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-18 16:37 ` [PATCH V2 20/20] block: move wbt_enable_default() out of queue freezing from sched ->exit() Ming Lei
2025-04-19 14:39   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-21  7:27     ` Ming Lei
2025-04-22  6:14       ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-22  8:13         ` Ming Lei
2025-04-22  9:27           ` Nilay Shroff
2025-04-22  9:33             ` Ming Lei

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