Re: [PATCH] 4/4 block: explicit plugging

[Nick Piggin]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> Nick writes:
>
> This is a patch to perform block device plugging explicitly in the submitting
> process context rather than implicitly by the block device.

Hi Jens,

Hey thanks for doing so much hard work with this, I couldn't have fixed
all the block layer stuff myself. QRCU looks like a good solution for the
barrier/sync operations (/me worried that one wouldn't exist), and a
novel use of RCU!

The only thing I had been thinking about before it is ready for primetime
-- as far as the VM side of things goes -- is whether we should change
the hard calls to address_space operations, such that they might be
avoided or customised when there is no backing block device?

I'm sure the answer to this is "yes", so I have an idea for a simple
implementation... but I'd like to hear thoughts from network fs / raid
people?

Nick

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