Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: use a separate plug list for blk-mq requests

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On Sun, Oct 06 2013, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> blk_flush_plug_list became a bit of a mess with the introduction of blk-mq,
> so I started looking into separating the blk-mq handling from it.  Turns
> out that by doing this we can streamline the blk-mq submission path a lot.
> 
> If we branch out to a blk-mq specific code path early we can do the list sort
> based on the hw ctx instead of the queue and thus avoid the later improvised
> loop to sort again.  In addition we can also remove the hw irq disabling in
> the submission path entirely and collapse a couple of functions in blk-mq.c,
> all at the cost of an additional list_head in struct blk_plug which can go
> away again as soon as we remove old-school request_fn based drivers.

Thanks, I'll take a look at this. The plugging was done mostly hacky
when implementing it, it was meant to be revisited. So definitely room
for improvement there.

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Jens Axboe