On Thu, Oct 24 2013, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:25:54AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > The blk-mq core and the blk-mq null driver uses it. > > Can't say I really like exporting it as all users will need a major > ifdef mess. If at all we'd expose the higher level add to llist and ipi > abstraction that both blk-mq and the null_blk driver use. > > For now I'd just suggest removing the NULL_IRQ_SOFTIRQ mode from > null_blk and decouple that from blk-mq itself. I'll try to cook up such > an abstraction in the meantime.
Agree, lets get a proper interface exported for this from kernel/smp.c instead. I've killed this patch and the softirq mode in null_blk for now. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
