Re: [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Apr 11 2011 - 08:49:10 EST


On 2011-04-11 14:36, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:11:58 +0200 Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Yes. But I need to know when to release the requests that I have stored.
>>> I need to know when ->write_pages or ->read_pages or whatever has finished
>>> submitting a pile of pages so that I can start processing the request that I
>>> have put aside. So I need a callback from blk_finish_plug.
>>
>> OK fair enough, I'll add your callback patch.
>>
>
> Thanks. I'll queue up my md fixes to follow it once it gets to -linus.

Great, once you do that and XFS kills the blk_flush_plug() calls too,
then we can remove that export and make it internal only.

--
Jens Axboe

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