Re: [PATCH] floppy: switch to one queue per drive instead of sharinga queue (Was: Re: cgq vs bdi names, was "cfq-iosched: fix a kernel OOPswhen usb key is inserted")

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Sep 23 2010 - 03:59:30 EST

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On 2010-09-22 22:42, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:17:54AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> [..]
>> Super, thanks a lot! I will queue this up. If you want to continue
>> this (very noble) crusade, the next target is
>> drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c. I never got that one started, but it was
>> next on my list.
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> IIUC, for MTD this conversion is already done and we seem to be using separate
> request queue for each gendisk instead of some disks sharing a single
> request queue. I think by following is relevant commit. Maxim should be
> able to confirm though.

Great! So the question is if other drivers with shared queues remain.

--
Jens Axboe

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