Hello, Christoph.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 02:04:18AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Why do you need the srcu protection? The completion path can never
> sleep.
>
> If there is a good reason to keep it please add commment, and
> make the srcu variant a separate function only used by drivers th
Why do you need the srcu protection? The completion path can never
sleep.
If there is a good reason to keep it please add commment, and
make the srcu variant a separate function only used by drivers that
need it instead of adding the conditional.
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Currently, blk-mq protects only the issue path with RCU. This patch
puts the completion path under the same RCU protection. This will be
used to synchronize issue/completion against timeout by later patches,
which will also add the comments.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
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block/blk-mq.c | 16 +++
