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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, axboe@kernel.dk,
	sth@linux.ibm.com, gjoyce@ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix lock dependency between percpu alloc lock and elevator lock
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 08:03:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250521060357.GA3404@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aC1Ropdb5x05WCIc@fedora>

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 12:08:02PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Not dig into this implementation, will look into later.
> 
> I guess it should work by extending elv_change_ctx.
> 
> However we have other elevator_queue lifetime issue, that is why
> ->elevator_lock is used almost everywhere.
> 
> Another solution is to move all `sched_data` into 'struct elevator_queue':

With "sched_data" you primarily mean the sched tags here, right?

Anyway, getting scheduler owned items out of the request_queue and into
the elevator data seems like the right thing to do, but it might indeed
be very invasive.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-21  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-20 10:33 [PATCH] block: fix lock dependency between percpu alloc lock and elevator lock Nilay Shroff
2025-05-21  4:08 ` Ming Lei
2025-05-21  6:03   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-05-21  7:40   ` Nilay Shroff

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