linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] blk-mq: immediately dispatch big size request

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Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 07:46:14 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:     Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] blk-mq: immediately dispatch big size request

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:00:58PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I've applied 1-2 for 4.10, but we probably should look into unifying
> those parts of sq and mq in general. For instance, it doesn't seem to
> make a lot of sense why we'd depth limit sq and not mq.

I've spent some time looking the the make_request_fn and to be honest
I think that whole sq vs mq split is pointless.  They are about 70-80%
the same anyway, and I think everyone would be served much better
by merging them.