From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] blkcg: unify blkgs for different policies
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:59:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202205920.GK19837@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120202204342.GB30258@redhat.com>
Hello,
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> What about bio based drivers? They might have their own internal locking
> and not relying on queue lock. And conceptually, we first throttle the
> bio, update the stats and then call into driver. So are you planning
> to move blk_throtl_bio() call into request function of individual driver
> to avoid taking queue lock twice.
>
> In fact even for request based drivers, if bio is being merged onto
> existing request on plug, we will not take any queue lock. So I am not
> sure how would you avoid extra queue lock for this case.
For request based drivers, it isn't an issue. If tracking info across
plug merging is necessary, just record the states in the plug
structure. The whole purpose of per-task plugging is exactly that -
buffering state before going through request_lock after all.
For ->make_request_fn() drivers, I'm not sure yet and will have to
look through different bio based drivers before deciding. At the
worst, we might require them to call stat update function under queue
lock or maybe provide fuzzier update or a way to opt out of per-blkg
stats. Let's see.
Thanks.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 21:19 [PATCHSET] blkcg: unify blkgs for different policies Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 01/11] blkcg: let blkio_group point to blkio_cgroup directly Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:33 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 02/11] block: relocate elevator initialized test from blk_cleanup_queue() to blk_drain_queue() Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:35 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:38 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 03/11] blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue() Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 04/11] blkcg: clear all request_queues on blkcg policy [un]registrations Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 05/11] blkcg: let blkcg core handle policy private data allocation Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 06/11] blkcg: move refcnt to blkcg core Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 22:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 22:11 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 07/11] blkcg: make blkg->pd an array and move configuration and stats into it Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 08/11] blkcg: don't use blkg->plid in stat related functions Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 09/11] blkcg: move per-queue blkg list heads and counters to queue and blkg Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 10/11] blkcg: let blkcg core manage per-queue blkg list and counter Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 11/11] blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policies Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 0:37 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 19:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 20:59 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 21:47 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 22:14 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 22:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 22:28 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 21:09 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:10 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-14 1:33 ` [PATCH UPDATED2 " Tejun Heo
2012-02-15 17:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-16 22:42 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 19:29 ` [PATCHSET] blkcg: unify blkgs for different policies Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:36 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:59 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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