Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/5] elevator: introduce global lock for sq_shared elevator

From: Damien Le Moal
Date: Sun Jun 15 2025 - 22:38:59 EST


On 6/14/25 18:25, Yu Kuai wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, both mq-deadline and bfq have internal global lock, prepare
> to convert them to use this high level lock and support batch request
> dispatching.

There is not enough explanations and what you have is misleading since this is
not just a "preparation" patch as you are adding a lock. So please explain that
in more details.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research