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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, dm-devel <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Queue upcall locking (was: [dm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] fix dm_any_congested() to properly sync up with suspend code path)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:21:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111182102.GB25049@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110142715.GD16649@agk.fab.redhat.com>

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Indeed - the blocking was a bug for which there's a patch, but that doesn't
> deal with how the function should be operating in the first place.
> 
> - If one device is found to be congested, why bother checking the remaining
> devices?
> 
> - If the device is suspended, the response should be that it is congested, I'd
> have thought.

Yes.  device congested is a quick an dirty check - if you encounter
anything long just return congested if I/O would hit this long delay,
too or not congested if you can't really know.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1225944008.14830.1101.camel@chandra-ubuntu>
2008-11-10 13:11 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-11-10 13:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-10 14:19     ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-11-10 14:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-10 14:32         ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-11-10 14:46           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-10 14:55             ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-11-10 14:35         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-11-11 18:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-11 22:08         ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-11-10 14:27     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-11-10 14:40       ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-11-11 18:22         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-11 18:21       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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