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From: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix readahead pipeline break caused by block plug
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:20:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120131122039.GA12706@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120131115716.GA19829@infradead.org>

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:57:16AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 07:42:56PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > So what?  Better do a bit more work now and keep the damn thing
> > > maintainable.
> > 
> > What if we add a wrapper function for doing
> > 
> >         blk_start_plug(&plug);
> >         ->direct_IO()
> >         blk_finish_plug(&plug);
> 
> No.  Just put it into __blockdev_direct_IO - a quick 2 minute audit of
> the kernel source shows that is in fact the only ->direct_IO instance
> which ever submits block I/O anyway.

Right, so nice point!

Thanks,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-31 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31  7:59 [PATCH] fix readahead pipeline break caused by block plug Shaohua Li
2012-01-31  8:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-31  8:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-31  8:50   ` Herbert Poetzl
2012-01-31  8:53   ` Shaohua Li
2012-01-31  9:17     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-31 10:20 ` Wu Fengguang
2012-01-31 10:34 ` Wu Fengguang
2012-01-31 10:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-31 10:57     ` Wu Fengguang
2012-01-31 11:34       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-31 11:42         ` Wu Fengguang
2012-01-31 11:57           ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-31 12:20             ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2012-02-01  2:25   ` Shaohua Li
2012-01-31 14:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-31 20:23   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-31 22:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-01-31 22:13   ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-31 22:22     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-01  3:36       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-01  7:10         ` Wu Fengguang
2012-02-01 16:01           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-01  9:18         ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-01 20:10           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-01 20:13             ` Jeff Moyer
2012-02-01 20:22             ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-01  7:02   ` Wu Fengguang

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