Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix misuse of blk_rq_stats in blk-iolatency

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Sat Jun 29 2019 - 11:38:00 EST


Ping?

On 20/06/2019 10:18, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Josef, thanks for taking a look.
>
>
> Although, there is nothing critical yet -- just a not working / disabled
> optimisation, but changes in stats could sublty break it. E.g. grouping
> @batch and @mean into a union will increase estimated average by several
> orders of magnitude.
>
> Jens, what do you think?
>
>
>
> On 14/06/2019 16:40, Josef Bacik wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:44:11PM +0300, Pavel Begunkov (Silence) wrote:
>>> From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> There are implicit assumptions about struct blk_rq_stats, which make
>>> it's very easy to misuse. The first patch fixes consequences, and the
>>> second employs type-system to prevent recurrences.
>>>
>>>
>>> Pavel Begunkov (2):
>>> blk-iolatency: Fix zero mean in previous stats
>>> blk-stats: Introduce explicit stat staging buffers
>>>
>>
>> I don't have a problem with this, but it's up to Jens I suppose
>>
>> Acked-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Josef
>>
>

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Yours sincerely,
Pavel Begunkov

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