linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: ioprio: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in set_task

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:49:32 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: ioprio: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in
 set_task_ioprio()

On 2018/07/23 16:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Looks good,

Looks bad. :-(

SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio)
{
(...snipped...)
	rcu_read_lock();
(...snipped...)
	ret = set_task_ioprio(p, ioprio);
(...snipped...)
	rcu_read_unlock();
(...snipped...)
}

> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> But to me it seems that btrfs and maybe ext4 as well would be much
> better off just setting a per-IO priority in the bio.
> 
> Any chance yo could look into that?
>