linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] blkcg: associate a request with its blkcg_gq instead of request

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:11:18 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        lizefan@...wei.com, hannes@...xchg.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        guro@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] blkcg: associate a request with its blkcg_gq
 instead of request_list

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 03:17:43PM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> After patch 5, we don't really need the blk_put_rl, blk_get_rl, blk_rq_set_rl
> functions. I'd like to delete them and only keep blk_rq_rl. The name
> blk_rq_set_rl is confusing too.

Yeah, we can switch the legacy rq to switch to direct blkg pinning
too.  If that cleans up the code, great.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun