linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: initialize request_queue's numa node during allocation

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Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:32:57 -0500
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: initialize request_queue's numa node during
 allocation

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 04:19:58PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:

[..]
> > Storing q->node info at queue allocation time makes sense to me. In fact
> > it might make sense to clean it up from blk_init_allocated_queue_node
> > and assume that passed queue has queue->node set at the allocation time.
> >
> > CCing Mike Snitzer who introduced blk_init_allocated_queue_node(). Mike
> > what do you think. I am not sure it makes sense to pass in nodeid, both
> > at queue allocation and queue initialization time. To me, it should make
> > more sense to allocate the queue at one node and that becomes the default
> > node for reset of the initialization.
> 
> Yeah, that makes sense to me too:
> 
> From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
> Subject: block: initialize request_queue's numa node during allocation
> 
> Set request_queue's node in blk_alloc_queue_node() rather than
> blk_init_allocated_queue_node().  This avoids blk_throtl_init() using
> q->node before it is initialized.
> 
> Rename blk_init_allocated_queue_node() to blk_init_allocated_queue().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>

Thanks Mike. Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>

Thanks
Vivek
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