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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, vgoyal@redhat.com, ctalbott@google.com,
	rni@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:14:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202171410.GD19837@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2A3305.9050009@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:53:57PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Block cgroup core can be built as module; however, it isn't too useful
> > as blk-throttle can only be built-in and cfq-iosched is usually the
> > default built-in scheduler.  Scheduled blkcg cleanup requires calling
> > into blkcg from block core.  To simplify that, disallow building blkcg
> > as module by making CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool.
> > 
> > If building blkcg core as module really matters, which I doubt, we can
> > revisit it after blkcg API cleanup.
> > 
> > -v2: Vivek pointed out that IOSCHED_CFQ was incorrectly updated to
> >      depend on BLK_CGROUP.  Fixed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  block/Kconfig.iosched |    4 ----
> >  block/blk-cgroup.c    |   17 -----------------
> >  block/blk-cgroup.h    |   10 ++--------
> >  init/Kconfig          |    2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> You can merge the following change with your patch.

Nice, will do.

> Moreover, some cgroup APIs were exported to allow blk-cgroup to be built
> as a module, and now they can be unexported.

Yeah, that would be nice too.  Let's think about that after this whole
block thing settles down.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01 20:50 [PATCHSET] blkcg: kill policy node and blkg->dev, take#4 Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 01/16] blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool Tejun Heo
2012-02-02  6:53   ` Li Zefan
2012-02-02 17:14     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 02/16] cfq: don't register propio policy if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 03/16] elevator: clear auxiliary data earlier during elevator switch Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 04/16] elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 05/16] block: implement blk_queue_bypass_start/end() Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 06/16] block: extend queue bypassing to cover blkcg policies Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 07/16] blkcg: shoot down blkio_groups on elevator switch Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 08/16] blkcg: move rcu_read_lock() outside of blkio_group get functions Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 09/16] blkcg: update blkg get functions take blkio_cgroup as parameter Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 10/16] blkcg: use q and plid instead of opaque void * for blkio_group association Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 11/16] blkcg: add blkio_policy[] array and allow one policy per policy ID Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 12/16] blkcg: use the usual get blkg path for root blkio_group Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 13/16] blkcg: factor out blkio_group creation Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 14/16] blkcg: don't allow or retain configuration of missing devices Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 15/16] blkcg: kill blkio_policy_node Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH 16/16] blkcg: kill the mind-bending blkg->dev Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-23 23:09 [PATCHSET] blkcg: kill policy node and blkg->dev, take#3 Tejun Heo
2012-01-23 23:09 ` [PATCH 01/16] blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool Tejun Heo

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