linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2]block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit

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Message-ID: <4E5503C0.2030005@fusionio.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:59:28 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
To:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2]block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit

On 2011-08-24 10:55, Shaohua Li wrote:
> Cleaning up the code a little bit. attempt_plug_merge() traverses the plug
> list anyway, we can do the request counting there, so stack size is reduced
> a little bit.
> The motivation here is I suspect if we should count the requests for each
> queue (task could handle multiple disks in the meantime), but my test doesn't
> show it's worthy doing. If somebody proves we should do it, below change
> will make that more easier.

Good change, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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