linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] blk-mq: Always complete remote completions requests in softirq

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:22:59 +0000
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] blk-mq: Always complete remote completions requests
 in softirq

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 09:10:26PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Controllers with multiple queues have their IRQ-handelers pinned to a
> CPU. The core shouldn't need to complete the request on a remote CPU.
> 
> Remove this case and always raise the softirq to complete the request.

What about changing blk_mq_trigger_softirq to take a void * argument
and thus removing __blk_mq_complete_request_remote entirely?