Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Charge loop device i/o to issuing cgroup

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 12 2020 - 09:36:33 EST


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 09:25:21AM -0400, Dan Schatzberg wrote:
> Seems like discussion on this patch series has died down. There's been
> a concern raised that we could generalize infrastructure across loop,
> md, etc. This may be possible, in the future, but it isn't clear to me
> how this would look like. I'm inclined to fix the existing issue with
> loop devices now (this is a problem we hit at FB) and address
> consolidation with other cases if and when those are addressed.
>
> Jens, you've expressed interest in seeing this series go through the
> block tree so I'm interested in your perspective here. Barring any
> concrete implementation bugs, would you be okay merging this version?

Independ of any higher level issues you need to sort out the spinlock
mess I pointed out.