linux-kernel - Re: [patch]blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:15:45 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch]blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to_rq should handle flush request

On 2014-06-04 05:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:09:51AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I have applied this one, but it irks me a little bit since we have
>> to touch q->flush_rq->stuff from a potential hot path. I haven't
>> thought much about this yet, but it would be a lot better if we
>> could fold in the flush tag somehow.
>
> This one also breaks scsi-mq by changing the first parameter of
> blk_mq_tag_to_rq.  With host-wide tags we won't have a hardware context
> easily available when looking for a request by tag.

Alright, I'll revert it to pass in the tags instead.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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