Re: [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Apr 18 2011 - 04:42:44 EST


On 2011-04-18 10:33, NeilBrown wrote:
>
>
> [[NOTE to dm-devel people - one of the patches here remove some
> now-unused code from dm-raid.c plus a declaration from device-mapper.h ]]]
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:10:18 +0200 Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2011-04-18 09:25, NeilBrown wrote:
>
>>>>> Therefore md cannot put anything useful on the list in 'struct blk_plug'.
>>>
>>> That is the heart of the problem.
>>
>> Hmm, I don't really see a way to avoid the list in that case. You really
>> do need some way to queue items, a single callback or flag or pointer
>> will not suffice.
>>
>> I've added the patch and removed the (now) useless ->unplugged_fn
>> callback. I suggest you base your md changes on top of my for-linus
>> branch and tell me when you are confident it looks good, then I'll pull
>> in your MD changes and submit them later today.
>>
>> OK with you?
>>
>
> Yes, that's perfect. Thanks.
>
> All of my plugging-related patches are now in a 'for-jens' branch:
>
> The following changes since commit 99e22598e9a8e0a996d69c8c0f6b7027cb57720a:
>
> block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt (2011-04-18 09:59:55 +0200)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
> git://neil.brown.name/md for-jens
>
> NeilBrown (6):
> md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
> md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback.
> md - remove old plugging code.
> md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
> md: incorporate new plugging into raid5.
> md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
>
> drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 8 ----
> drivers/md/md.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> drivers/md/md.h | 26 ++----------
> drivers/md/raid1.c | 29 +++++++-------
> drivers/md/raid10.c | 27 ++++++-------
> drivers/md/raid5.c | 61 ++++++++++++----------------
> drivers/md/raid5.h | 2 -
> include/linux/device-mapper.h | 1 -
> 8 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)

Great, thanks a lot Neil! It's pulled in now, will send the request to
Linus today.

--
Jens Axboe

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