Re: [PATCH] block: kyber: make kyber more friendly with merging

["jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>]

Hi Jens and Holger

Thank for your kindly response.
That's really appreciated.

I will post next version based on Jens' patch.

Thanks
Jianchao

On 05/23/2018 02:32 AM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
>>>> This looks great but prevents kyber from being built as module,
>>>> which is AFAIK supposed to work (and works now):
>>>>
>>>> ..
>>>>   CC [M]  block/kyber-iosched.o
>>>>   Building modules, stage 2.
>>>>   MODPOST 313 modules
>>>> ERROR: "bio_attempt_back_merge" [block/kyber-iosched.ko] undefined!
>>>> ERROR: "bio_attempt_front_merge" [block/kyber-iosched.ko] undefined!
>>>> ERROR: "bio_attempt_discard_merge" [block/kyber-iosched.ko] undefined!
>>>> ERROR: "blk_try_merge" [block/kyber-iosched.ko] undefined!
>>>> ERROR: "blk_rq_merge_ok" [block/kyber-iosched.ko] undefined!
>>>> ..
>>>>
>>>> It does build fine when compiled in, obviously. :)
>>> It's basically duplicating the contents of blk_attempt_plug_merge().
>>> I would suggest abstracting out the list loop and merge check
>>> into a helper, that could then both be called from kyber and the
>>> plug merge function.
>> See attached, prep patch and yours rebased on top of it.
> That was quick. :)
> 
> Applies smoothly on top of my 4.16++ tree, now builds correctly as
> module and is reproducibly (slightly) faster even on my pedestrian
> SATA SSDs, now on par or occasionally even faster than mq-deadline.
> What's not to like? So:
> 
> Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>