linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/16] blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK

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Date:	Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:14:10 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	axboe@...nel.dk, vgoyal@...hat.com, ctalbott@...gle.com,
	rni@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:53:57PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Block cgroup core can be built as module; however, it isn't too useful
> > as blk-throttle can only be built-in and cfq-iosched is usually the
> > default built-in scheduler.  Scheduled blkcg cleanup requires calling
> > into blkcg from block core.  To simplify that, disallow building blkcg
> > as module by making CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool.
> > 
> > If building blkcg core as module really matters, which I doubt, we can
> > revisit it after blkcg API cleanup.
> > 
> > -v2: Vivek pointed out that IOSCHED_CFQ was incorrectly updated to
> >      depend on BLK_CGROUP.  Fixed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  block/Kconfig.iosched |    4 ----
> >  block/blk-cgroup.c    |   17 -----------------
> >  block/blk-cgroup.h    |   10 ++--------
> >  init/Kconfig          |    2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> You can merge the following change with your patch.

Nice, will do.

> Moreover, some cgroup APIs were exported to allow blk-cgroup to be built
> as a module, and now they can be unexported.

Yeah, that would be nice too.  Let's think about that after this whole
block thing settles down.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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