From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
axboe@kernel.dk, ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] blkcg: shoot down blkio_groups on elevator switch
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:03:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120123210327.GO25986@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120123204757.GM12652@google.com>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:47:57PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Lennart.
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:43:52PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > I didn't really follow the whole discussion here, but if this is about
> > adjusting parameters of a block device as the block device shows up this
> > must necessarily happen in an udev rule (and not in a daemon watching
> > block devices using libudev), since you most likely need the
> > synchronicity: i.e. you want to avoid that normal (libudev-using)
> > userspace code ever sees the device before those params are written to
> > the device. A daemon asynchronously watching the devices with libudev
> > for adjusting such tunables is necessarily racy.
>
> Yeap, this needs to be synchronous so that it's configured before the
> rest of system notices the device. Vivek, can you please ask the
> tuned guys to take a look?
Sure I will. Thanks.
Vivek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-22 3:25 [PATCHSET] blkcg: kill policy node and blkg->dev, take#2 Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 01/17] blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 15:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 15:34 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 02/17] cfq: don't register propio policy if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 03/17] elevator: clear auxiliary data earlier during elevator switch Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 04/17] elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 05/17] block: implement blk_queue_bypass_start/end() Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 06/17] block: extend queue bypassing to cover blkcg policies Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 07/17] blkcg: make blkio_list_lock irq-safe Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 08/17] blkcg: shoot down blkio_groups on elevator switch Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 15:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 15:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 15:49 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 15:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 15:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 15:57 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 16:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 16:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 16:20 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 16:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 16:32 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 16:16 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 16:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 17:10 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 18:27 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 18:43 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 19:33 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 19:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 20:33 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 20:43 ` Lennart Poettering
2012-01-23 20:47 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 21:03 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2012-01-23 20:40 ` Lennart Poettering
2012-01-23 18:32 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-23 18:51 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 09/17] blkcg: move rcu_read_lock() outside of blkio_group get functions Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 10/17] blkcg: update blkg get functions take blkio_cgroup as parameter Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 11/17] blkcg: use q and plid instead of opaque void * for blkio_group association Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 12/17] blkcg: add blkio_policy[] array and allow one policy per policy ID Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 13/17] blkcg: use the usual get blkg path for root blkio_group Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 14/17] blkcg: factor out blkio_group creation Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 15/17] blkcg: don't allow or retain configuration of missing devices Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 16/17] blkcg: kill blkio_policy_node Tejun Heo
2012-01-22 3:25 ` [PATCH 17/17] blkcg: kill the mind-bending blkg->dev Tejun Heo
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