[PATCH v3 04/11] blk-mq: Introduce blk_mq_quiesce_queue()

[Ming Lei]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Bart Van Assche
<bart.vanassche at sandisk.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 02:50 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>
>> blk_mq_quiesce_queue() waits until ongoing .queue_rq() invocations
>> have finished. This function does *not* wait until all outstanding
>> requests have finished (this means invocation of request.end_io()).
>
>
> (replying to my own e-mail)
>
> The zero-day kernel test infrastructure reported to me that this patch
> causes a build failure with CONFIG_SRCU=n. Should I add "select SRCU" to
> block/Kconfig (excludes TINY_RCU) or should I rather modify this patch such

Select SRCU is fine, and you can see it is done in lots of
places(btrfs, net, quota, kvm, power,...)

> that a mutex or rwsem is used instead of SRCU?

Both should be much worse than SRCU, even not as good as atomic_t.

Thanks,
Ming

>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>



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Ming Lei