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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>,
	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] blk-mq I/O scheduling fixes
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:48:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bde2781-9958-9bf1-2d89-8c4f9f0d8cba@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190919094547.67194-1-hare@suse.de>

On 9/19/19 3:45 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Damien pointed out that there are some areas in the blk-mq I/O
> scheduling algorithm which have a distinct legacy feel to it,
> and prohibit multiqueue I/O schedulers from working properly.
> These two patches should clear up this situation, but as it's
> not quite clear what the original intention of the code was
> I'll be posting them as an RFC.
> 
> So as usual, comments and reviews are welcome.
> 
> Hannes Reinecke (2):
>    blk-mq: fixup request re-insert in blk_mq_try_issue_list_directly()
>    blk-mq: always call into the scheduler in blk_mq_make_request()
> 
>   block/blk-mq.c | 9 ++-------
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Not quite sure what to do with this... Did you test them at all?
One is obviously broken and would crash the kernel, the other
is/was a performance optimization done not that long ago.

Just going to ignore this series for now.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-19  9:45 [RFC PATCH 0/2] blk-mq I/O scheduling fixes Hannes Reinecke
2019-09-19  9:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] blk-mq: fixup request re-insert in blk_mq_try_issue_list_directly() Hannes Reinecke
2019-09-19 14:19   ` Ming Lei
2019-09-20  6:42     ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-09-19 14:52   ` Guoqing Jiang
2019-09-19  9:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] blk-mq: always call into the scheduler in blk_mq_make_request() Hannes Reinecke
2019-09-19 10:21   ` Damien Le Moal
2019-09-19 14:23     ` Ming Lei
2019-09-19 15:48       ` Kashyap Desai
2019-09-19 16:13         ` Damien Le Moal
2019-09-21 15:26   ` [blk] b91f4a426e: fio.write_bw_MBps -9.3% regression kernel test robot
2019-09-19  9:56 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] blk-mq I/O scheduling fixes Liu, Sunny
2019-09-19 10:03   ` Damien Le Moal
     [not found]     ` <BJXPR01MB0296594F3E478B5BFD4DA2ABF4890@BJXPR01MB0296.CHNPR01.prod.partner.outlook.cn>
2019-09-19 12:44       ` Damien Le Moal
2019-09-19 12:54         ` Liu, Sunny
2019-09-19 12:57 ` Hans Holmberg
2019-09-19 17:48 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-09-19 21:11   ` Damien Le Moal

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