linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/1] random vs blk-mq

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:36:10 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] random vs blk-mq

A tester found out that we need add_disk_randomness for my scsi-mq
branch.  The patch applied exports add_disk_randomness so that modular
scsi still works with a driver that either uses the low-level I/O
completion routines for the old block layer, or blk-mq, and I'd love
to get this in through Jens' tree which has all the other block work
scsi-mq requires.

But this also brings up an interesting question:  blk-mq currently
does not set QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in the default queue flags, so
simply converting a driver to blk-mq will mean it stops contributing
to the random pool.  Do we need a more fine grained way to control
this, especially for SCSI?
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