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From: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: jaxboe@fusionio.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add blk_run_queue_async
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:33:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAC59C7.1060807@tao.ma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110418092647.GB3837@infradead.org>

Hi Christoph,
On 04/18/2011 05:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
> add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly.  I've kept
> the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
> as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 

> Index: linux-2.6/block/blk.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk.h	2011-04-18 10:53:39.001656864 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/block/blk.h	2011-04-18 11:00:28.066107438 +0200
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned lon
>  void blk_delete_timer(struct request *);
>  void blk_add_timer(struct request *);
>  void __generic_unplug_device(struct request_queue *);
> +void blk_run_queue_async(struct request_queue *q);
any reason why this function isn't put together with the __blk_run_queue
below?
>  
>  /*
>   * Internal atomic flags for request handling
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/blkdev.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/blkdev.h	2011-04-18 10:48:11.170099546 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/blkdev.h	2011-04-18 10:58:41.003354113 +0200
> @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ extern void blk_start_queue(struct reque
>  extern void blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q);
>  extern void blk_sync_queue(struct request_queue *q);
>  extern void __blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q);
> -extern void __blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *q, bool force_kblockd);
> +extern void __blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *q);
>  extern void blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *);
>  extern int blk_rq_map_user(struct request_queue *, struct request *,
>  			   struct rq_map_data *, void __user *, unsigned long,
Regards,
Tao

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-18 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18  9:26 [PATCH] block: add blk_run_queue_async Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-18  9:38 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 15:33 ` Tao Ma [this message]
2011-04-18 16:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-18 19:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-04-18 19:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-18 20:01     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 20:20     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-04-18 21:48       ` Mike Snitzer
2011-04-19 14:40         ` Jens Axboe

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