linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/15] blkcg: cleanup and make blk_get_rl use blkg_lookup

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:29:00 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, kernel-team@...com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] blkcg: cleanup and make blk_get_rl use
 blkg_lookup_create

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 09:53:53PM -0400, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> From: "Dennis Zhou (Facebook)" <dennisszhou@...il.com>
> 
> blk_get_rl is responsible for identifying which request_list a request
> should be allocated to. Try get logic was added earlier, but
> semantically the logic was not changed.
> 
> This patch makes better use of the bio already having a reference to the
> blkg in the hot path. The cold path uses a better fallback of
> blkg_lookup_create rather than just blkg_lookup and then falling back to
> the q->root_rl. If lookup_create fails with anything but -ENODEV, it
> falls back to q->root_rl.
> 
> A clarifying comment is added to explain why q->root_rl is used rather
> than the root blkg's rl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

We're replicating that retry busy loop a lot.  It'd be really great to
factor that out and document what it's doing.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun