linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add MMC software queue support

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Message-ID: <yq1v9r46vua.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:15:09 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "\(Exiting\) Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@...il.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, asutoshd@...eaurora.org,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>,
        Lyra Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        linux-mmc <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add MMC software queue support


Christoph,

> equivalent to SCSI logical units and nvme namespace, just with a
> pretty idiotic design decision that only allows I/O to one of them at
> a time.  The block layer way to deal with them is to use a shared
> tagset for multiple request queues, which doesn't use up a whole lot
> of resources.  The only hard part is the draining when switching
> between partitions, and there is no really nice way to deal with that.
> If requests are batched enough we could just drain and switch every
> time an other partition access comes in.

This mirrors single_lun in SCSI closely. I was hoping we could
eventually get rid of that travesty but if MMC needs something similar,
maybe it would be good to move that plumbing to block?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering