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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>,
	<hch@infradead.org>, <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: Block: Add blk-mq support
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 18:20:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5456D867.5020303@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5456B4F8.1000608@nod.at>

On 2014-11-02 15:49, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> AFAICT blk-mq allocates one struct ubiblock_pdu per device.
> As all IO is done via scattergather the memory footprint should be good.
> But I'm sure Christoph can tell you the glory details.

That is true, the request list and pdu is allocated upfront. If that is 
a problem, the pdu need not be allocated upfront but could be done at IO 
time instead. With that comes a bit more complicated retry handling, for 
memory shortage situations.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-03  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-02 13:00 [PATCH] UBI: Block: Add blk-mq support Richard Weinberger
2014-11-02 21:52 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-11-02 22:21   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-02 22:27     ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-11-02 22:49       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-03  1:20         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-11-03  1:18   ` Jens Axboe
2014-11-03  5:03 ` Ming Lei
2014-11-03 13:58   ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-11-03 18:22     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-03  8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-03  8:23   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-07  9:46     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-11-07  9:53       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-07  9:56         ` Artem Bityutskiy

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