Re: [PATCH 1/6] blk-mq: protect completion path with RCU

From: tj@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Dec 14 2017 - 13:14:10 EST


On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 05:01:06PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 11:01 -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > + } else {
> > + srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(hctx->queue_rq_srcu);
> > + if (!blk_mark_rq_complete(rq))
> > + __blk_mq_complete_request(rq);
> > + srcu_read_unlock(hctx->queue_rq_srcu, srcu_idx);
>
> Hello Tejun,
>
> The name queue_rq_srcu was chosen to reflect the original use of that structure,
> namely to protect .queue_rq() calls. Your patch series broadens the use of that

Yeah, will add a patch to rename it.

> srcu structure so I would appreciate it if it would be renamed, e.g. into "srcu".
> See also commit 6a83e74d214a ("blk-mq: Introduce blk_mq_quiesce_queue()").

Ah yeah, it'd be nice to have the [s]rcu synchronize calls factored
out.

Thanks.

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tejun