Re: [PATCH] blk-ioprio: Introduce promote-to-rt policy

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Feb 14 2023 - 03:52:47 EST


On Mon 13-02-23 09:10:26, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2/13/23 04:51, Hou Tao wrote:
> > Should I keep "none-to-rt" and make it work just like "promote-to-rt" or should
> > I just remove "none-to-rt" and add "promote-to-rt" ? I think the latter will be
> > more appropriate.
>
> Removing none-to-rt would break existing systems that use this policy. I
> prefer the former solution.

Agreed. I also think that keeping none-to-rt as an alias for promote-to-rt
allows for a smoother transition. However I'm all for documenting that
none-to-rt is deprecated and works as promote-to-rt.

Honza

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