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From: JeffleXu <[email protected]>
To: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] dm: add support for DM_TARGET_NOWAIT for various targets
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:58:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


On 11/12/20 2:05 PM, JeffleXu wrote:
>>
>> dm-table.c:dm_table_set_restrictions() has:
>>
>>          if (dm_table_supports_nowait(t))
>>                  blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, q);
>>          else
>>                  blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, q);
>>
>>> This patch adds support for DM_TARGET_NOWAIT for those dm targets, the
>>> .map() algorithm of which just involves sector recalculation.
>> So you're looking to constrain which targets will properly support
>> REQ_NOWAIT, based on whether they do a simple remapping?
>
> To be honest, I'm a little confused about the semantics of REQ_NOWAIT. 
> Jens may had ever
>
> explained it in block or io_uring mailing list, but I can't find the 
> specific mail.
>
I find it here 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/[email protected]/


So if the IO is offloaded to workqueue and the current process context 
will not get blocked,

then is this device capable of handling REQ_NOWAIT or not?

-- 
Thanks,
Jeffle


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-11-12  6:05   ` [dm-devel] dm: add support for DM_TARGET_NOWAIT for various targets JeffleXu
2020-11-12  7:58     ` JeffleXu [this message]
2020-11-12 16:11     ` Mike Snitzer

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