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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Li Ning <lining2020x@163.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/7] block: allow to bypass bio check before submitting bio
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 16:12:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YgN3e98Px8F5w3q/@T590> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YeUnERz9Qoz2UtVn@infradead.org>

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:21:37AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> >   * systems and other upper level users of the block layer should use
> >   * submit_bio() instead.
> >   */
> > -void submit_bio_noacct(struct bio *bio)
> > +void __submit_bio_noacct(struct bio *bio, bool check)
> >  {
> > -	if (unlikely(!submit_bio_checks(bio)))
> > +	if (unlikely(check && !submit_bio_checks(bio)))
> >  		return;
> 
> This doesn't make sense as an API - you can just move the checks
> into the caller that pass check=true.

But submit_bio_checks() is local helper, and it is hard to make it
public to drivers. Not mention there are lots of callers to
submit_bio_noacct().


Thanks,
Ming


  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-09  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-11 11:55 [RFC PATCH 0/7] block: improve iops limit throttle Ming Lei
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] block: move submit_bio_checks() into submit_bio_noacct Ming Lei
2022-01-17  8:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] block: move blk_crypto_bio_prep() out of blk-mq.c Ming Lei
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] block: allow to bypass bio check before submitting bio Ming Lei
2022-01-17  8:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-09  8:12     ` Ming Lei [this message]
2022-02-09  8:16       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-09  8:35         ` Ming Lei
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] block: don't check bio in blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn Ming Lei
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] block: throttle split bio in case of iops limit Ming Lei
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] block: don't try to throttle split bio if iops limit isn't set Ming Lei
2022-01-11 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] block: revert 4f1e9630afe6 ("blk-throtl: optimize IOPS throttle for large IO scenarios") Ming Lei
     [not found] ` <4666c796.5083.17e4d67bb88.Coremail.lining2020x@163.com>
     [not found]   ` <d7c6f47.2d01.17e51b058cc.Coremail.lining2020x@163.com>
2022-01-17  7:46     ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] block: improve iops limit throttle 163

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