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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jinlong Chen <nickyc975@zju.edu.cn>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, hch@lst.de, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] elevator: restore old io scheduler on failure in elevator_switch
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:13:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221121071305.GB23882@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1668772991.git.nickyc975@zju.edu.cn>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 08:09:52PM +0800, Jinlong Chen wrote:
> elevator_switch contains the fallback logic in sq era, but it was removed
> when moving to mq (commit: a1ce35fa49852db60fc6e268038530be533c5b15),
> leaving the document mismatched with the behavior. As far as I can see,
> restoring the old io scheduler is more reasonable than just leaving the
> scheduler none, hence there is the series.

What failure scenariou can you think off where switching to the intended
schedule fails, but switching back to the previous one will succeed?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-21  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-18 12:09 [RFC PATCH 0/2] elevator: restore old io scheduler on failure in elevator_switch Jinlong Chen
2022-11-18 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] elevator: add a helper for applying scheduler to request_queue Jinlong Chen
2022-11-18 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] elevator: restore the old io scheduler if failed to switch to the new one Jinlong Chen
2022-11-21  7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-11-22 12:14   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] elevator: restore old io scheduler on failure in elevator_switch Jinlong Chen
2022-11-22 12:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-22 12:44       ` Jinlong Chen

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