linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: add blk_run_queue

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4DAC59C7.1060807@tao.ma>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:33:27 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	jaxboe@...ionio.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add blk_run_queue_async

Hi Christoph,
On 04/18/2011 05:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
> add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly.  I've kept
> the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
> as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 

> Index: linux-2.6/block/blk.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk.h	2011-04-18 10:53:39.001656864 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/block/blk.h	2011-04-18 11:00:28.066107438 +0200
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned lon
>  void blk_delete_timer(struct request *);
>  void blk_add_timer(struct request *);
>  void __generic_unplug_device(struct request_queue *);
> +void blk_run_queue_async(struct request_queue *q);
any reason why this function isn't put together with the __blk_run_queue
below?
>  
>  /*
>   * Internal atomic flags for request handling
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/blkdev.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/blkdev.h	2011-04-18 10:48:11.170099546 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/blkdev.h	2011-04-18 10:58:41.003354113 +0200
> @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ extern void blk_start_queue(struct reque
>  extern void blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q);
>  extern void blk_sync_queue(struct request_queue *q);
>  extern void __blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q);
> -extern void __blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *q, bool force_kblockd);
> +extern void __blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *q);
>  extern void blk_run_queue(struct request_queue *);
>  extern int blk_rq_map_user(struct request_queue *, struct request *,
>  			   struct rq_map_data *, void __user *, unsigned long,
Regards,
Tao
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/