Re: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: mark HPB support as BROKEN

Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27T05:27:33Z

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 01:10:47PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> If blk_insert_cloned_request() is moved into the device mapper then I
> think that blk_mq_request_issue_directly() will need to be exported.

Which is even worse.

> How
> about the (totally untested) patch below for removing the
> blk_insert_cloned_request() call from the UFS-HPB code?

Which again doesn't fix anything. The problem is that it fans out one
request into two on the same queue, not the specific interface used.

Martin: please just take the HPB removal. This seems to be the only
thing that makes sense given that no one from the UFS camp seems to
have the time and resources to come up with an alternative.