[RFC PATCH 3/3] blk-mq: Remove generation seqeunce

[axboe@kernel.dk (Jens Axboe)]

On 5/22/18 2:51 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018@09:51:19PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On May 21, 2018,@9:47 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 21, 2018@09:16:33PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 5/21/18 8:49 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, May 21, 2018@05:11:31PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
>>>>>> This patch simplifies the timeout handling by relying on the request
>>>>>> reference counting to ensure the iterator is operating on an inflight
>>>>>
>>>>> The reference counting isn't free, what is the real benefit in this way?
>>>>
>>>> Neither is the current scheme and locking, and this is a hell of a lot
>>>> simpler. I'd get rid of the kref stuff and just do a simple
>>>> atomic_dec_and_test(). Most of the time we should be uncontended on
>>>> that, which would make it pretty darn cheap. I'd be surprised if it
>>>> wasn't better than the current alternatives.
>>>
>>> The explicit memory barriers by atomic_dec_and_test() isn't free.
>>
>> I?m not saying it?s free. Neither is our current synchronization.
>>
>>> Also the double completion issue need to be fixed before discussing
>>> this approach further.
>>
>> Certainly. Also not saying that the current patch is perfect. But
>> it?s a lot more palatable than the alternatives, hence my interest.
>> And I?d like for this issue to get solved, we seem to be a bit stuck
>> atm. 
>>
> 
> It may not be something we are stuck at, and seems no alternatives for
> this patchset.
> 
> It is a new requirement from NVMe, and Keith wants driver to complete
> timed-out request in .timeout(). We never support that before for both
> mq and non-mq code path.

No, that's not what he wants to do. He wants to use referencing to
release the final resources of the request (the tag), to prevent
premature reuse of the request.

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Jens Axboe