Re: [PATCH v3 07/14] blk-mq: make blk_mq_commit_rqs a general function for all commits

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Jan 16 2023 - 11:25:22 EST


On 1/16/23 9:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:07:00AM +0800, Kemeng Shi wrote:
>>>> Why? I think always having the trace even for the commit case seems
>>>> very useful for making the traces useful.
>>> I think unplug event more likely means that request going to be sent to driver
>>> was plugged and in plug list. And the current code do only trace unplug event
>>> when dispatching requests from plug list. If so, would it be better to add
>>> a new event to trace commit?
>> Hi Christoph, which way do you prefer now? Keep unplug event consistent to
>> trace commit of requests from plug list only or trace all commits with
>> unplug event. Please let me know and I will consider it in next version.
>> Thanks.
>
> To me always having the trace feels more useful, but let's see if Jens
> has an opinion on it.

Agree, that is probably the saner option.

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Jens Axboe