Add two new helpers to simplify I/O accounting for bio based drivers.
Currently these drivers use the generic_start_io_acct and
generic_end_io_acct helpers which have very cumbersome calling
conventions, don't actually return the time they started accounting,
and try to deal with accounting for par
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 03:28:07PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> I think it would be better to leave this jiffies legacy nonsense in
> callers and pass here request duration in nanoseconds.
jiffies is what the existing interfaces uses. But now that they come
from the start helper fixing t
On 25/05/2020 14.29, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Add two new helpers to simplify I/O accounting for bio based drivers.
Currently these drivers use the generic_start_io_acct and
generic_end_io_acct helpers which have very cumbersome calling
conventions, don't actually return the time they started acc
Add two new helpers to simplify I/O accounting for bio based drivers.
Currently these drivers use the generic_start_io_acct and
generic_end_io_acct helpers which have very cumbersome calling
conventions, don't actually return the time they started accounting,
and try to deal with accounting for par
