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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] blk-mq: initialize pdu of flush req explicitly
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:03:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540DFD8D.2020804@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVP-kUkCoW_pPrxqKWeoSKkxCACLLth2ycv87EVzfr2mUA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/08/2014 10:55 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> This works fine for me, although I still don't really like it very much.
>>
>> If you really want to go down the path of major surgery in this area we
>> should probably allocate a flush request per hw_ctx, and initialize it
>> using the normal init/exit functions.  If we want to have proper multiqueue
>> performance on devices needing flushes we'll need something like that anyway.
> 
> Yes, that should be the final solution for the problem, and looks the whole
> flush machinery need to move into hctx, I will try to figure out one patch to
> do that.

I had not thought of that, but seems like a great way to clean this up a
lot. It just never felt like the right thing to do.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-07  8:39 [PATCH 0/6] blk-mq: initialize pdu of flush req explicitly Ming Lei
2014-09-07  8:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] blk-mq: allocate flush_rq in blk_mq_init_flush() Ming Lei
2014-09-07  8:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] blk-mq: introduce init_flush_rq callback and its pair Ming Lei
2014-09-07  8:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] blk-mq: don't copy pdu if init_flush_rq is implemented Ming Lei
2014-09-07  8:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] virtio-blk: implement init_flush_rq Ming Lei
2014-09-07 18:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-07  8:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] scsi-lib: implement init_flush_rq and its pair Ming Lei
2014-09-07 18:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-07  8:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] blk-mq: don't copy pdu any more for flush req Ming Lei
2014-09-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 0/6] blk-mq: initialize pdu of flush req explicitly Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-08 16:55   ` Ming Lei
2014-09-08 19:03     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-09-08 22:53     ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)

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