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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] block: clarify documentation for blk_{start|finish}_plug
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 20:50:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de3d3d0a-4d44-bb1b-133b-feabb281e467@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49a7ka7qy9.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>

On 1/8/19 2:57 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> There was some confusion about what these functions did.  Make it clear
> that this is a hint for upper layers to pass to the block layer, and
> that it does not guarantee that I/O will not be submitted between a
> start and finish plug.

Thanks Jeff, that's definitely an improvement, I like how it's phrased
as intent, there are no guarantees and we can change things down the
line as well (the auto-unplug threshold is a good example of that).

Applied for 5.0.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-08 21:57 [patch] block: clarify documentation for blk_{start|finish}_plug Jeff Moyer
2019-01-08 22:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-09  3:07 ` Ming Lei
2019-01-09  3:50 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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