linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] block: blk-mq: avoid initializing request during its completion

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Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:38:51 -0700
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] block: blk-mq: avoid initializing request during
 its completion

On Thu, Dec 26 2013, Ming Lei wrote:
> One problem is that request->start_time/start_time_ns could be
> set as wrong.
> 
> Also it is normal to intialize one data structure just after its
> allocation.
> 
> So move the initialization out of its completion path.

It's done that way because of presumed cache hotness on completion,
since we just touched a lot of the members. Lets just fix the start time
issue by itself.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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