From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>,
Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>,
Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] blk-mq: allow hw queues to share hostwide tags
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:44:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190624084441.GB10941@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90d85b99-3bc0-fb3b-8537-aeac03414eae@acm.org>
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 08:37:39AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 5/30/19 7:27 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
> > index 6aea0ebc3a73..3d6780504dcb 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
> > @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ static const char *const alloc_policy_name[] = {
> > static const char *const hctx_flag_name[] = {
> > HCTX_FLAG_NAME(SHOULD_MERGE),
> > HCTX_FLAG_NAME(TAG_SHARED),
> > + HCTX_FLAG_NAME(HOST_TAGS),
> > HCTX_FLAG_NAME(BLOCKING),
> > HCTX_FLAG_NAME(NO_SCHED),
> > };
>
> The name BLK_MQ_F_HOST_TAGS suggests that tags are shared across a SCSI
> host. That is misleading since this flag means that tags are shared across
> hardware queues. Additionally, the "host" term is a term that comes from the
> SCSI world and this patch is a block layer patch. That makes me wonder
> whether another name should be used to reflect that all hardware queues
> share the same tag set? How about renaming BLK_MQ_F_TAG_SHARED into
> BLK_MQ_F_TAG_QUEUE_SHARED and renaming BLK_MQ_F_HOST_TAGS into
> BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED?
Looks fine, will do it in V2.
Thanks,
Ming
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-24 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-31 2:27 [PATCH 0/9] blk-mq/scsi: convert private reply queue into blk_mq hw queue Ming Lei
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 1/9] blk-mq: allow hw queues to share hostwide tags Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:07 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 15:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-24 8:44 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2019-06-05 14:10 ` John Garry
2019-06-24 8:46 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-24 13:14 ` John Garry
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 2/9] block: null_blk: introduce module parameter of 'g_host_tags' Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:08 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 15:39 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-24 8:43 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-02 1:56 ` Minwoo Im
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 3/9] scsi: Add template flag 'host_tagset' Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:08 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 4/9] scsi_debug: support host tagset Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:09 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-06-02 2:03 ` Minwoo Im
2019-06-02 17:01 ` Douglas Gilbert
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 5/9] scsi: introduce scsi_cmnd_hctx_index() Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:10 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 6/9] scsi: hpsa: convert private reply queue to blk-mq hw queue Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:15 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 6:30 ` Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:40 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 2:27 ` [PATCH 7/9] scsi: hisi_sas_v3: " Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:20 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 6:34 ` Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:42 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-31 7:14 ` Ming Lei
2019-05-31 11:38 ` John Garry
2019-06-03 11:00 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-03 13:00 ` John Garry
2019-06-04 13:37 ` Ming Lei
2019-05-31 2:28 ` [PATCH 8/9] scsi: megaraid: " Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:22 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-06-01 21:41 ` Kashyap Desai
2019-06-02 6:42 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-02 7:48 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-02 16:34 ` Kashyap Desai
2019-06-03 3:56 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-03 10:00 ` Kashyap Desai
2019-06-07 9:45 ` Kashyap Desai
2019-05-31 2:28 ` [PATCH 9/9] scsi: mp3sas: " Ming Lei
2019-05-31 6:23 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-06-06 11:58 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-06-04 8:49 ` [PATCH 0/9] blk-mq/scsi: convert private reply queue into blk_mq " John Garry
2019-08-13 8:30 ` John Garry
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