Re: [PATCH 2/2 block/for-6.2] blk-iolatency: Make initialization lazy

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Christoph.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:53:26AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +static int blk_iolatency_try_init(char *input)
> > +{
> > +	static DEFINE_MUTEX(init_mutex);
> > +	struct block_device *bdev;
> > +	int ret = 0;
> > +
> > +	bdev = blkcg_conf_open_bdev(&input);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(bdev))
> > +		return PTR_ERR(bdev);
> 
> > +retry:
> >  	ret = blkg_conf_prep(blkcg, &blkcg_policy_iolatency, buf, &ctx);
> > +	if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> > +		ret = blk_iolatency_try_init(buf);
> 
> It's a little sad to do two block device lookups here (even if it
> obviously doesn't matter for performance).  I wonder if it would
> make sense to explicitly support the lazy init pattern
> in blkg_conf_prep somehow.
> 
> Otherwise I'm all for the lazy init.

Yeah, I thought about separating out open_bdev from blkg_conf_prep() but the
added complexity didn't feel very attractive given the usage pattern. Lemme
take a stab at it. Maybe it won't look too bad.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun