Re: [PATCH 06/16] blk-mq: add 'type' attribute to the sysfs hctx directory

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Oct 31 2018 - 10:21:39 EST


On 10/30/18 6:53 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
>> It can be useful for a user to verify what type a given hardware
>> queue is, expose this information in sysfs.
>
> I assume the user is expected to understand the meaning of the
> enumeration it sees in accessing this field correct?
>
> Would be nice to output some meaningful string but I'm not
> yet sure how to do that, but would be nice...

The type is driver private, there's no specific meaning associated
with the type. We could make it output a string provided that
the driver had a way to query it. For now I think the type is
enough, it'll allow you to see which ones are different.

> Other than that,
> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

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Jens Axboe