Re: [PATCH 0/3] blk-mq: bitmap tag: Fix few races

[Jens Axboe]

On 2014-06-17 10:39, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 2014-06-17 04:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Jens, did you plan to pick these up?  There's a few bits of low hanging
> > > fruit for cleanups / micro-optimizations in this area, but I don't want
> > > to create conflicts with Alexanders work.
> >
> > I'm evaluating just getting rid of the cyclic waits, which is why
> > I've held off. But the patches don't apply to the current tree
> > anyway, so they would need a rediffing no matter what.
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> Patches 1/3 and 2/3 apply to Linus's tree and could go in without patch 3/3.
> I'll post v2 of 3/3.

As mentioned in another thread, I'm sort-of hoping we can just get rid 
of the nasty multiple waitqueues. Will run some testing when I'm back. 
If we still see a nice gain of having the cycling waitqueues, then I'll 
test and apply your patches to close up the holes.


--
Jens Axboe

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