[PATCH 16/26] block: move the io_stat flag setting to queue_limits
Damien Le Moal
dlemoal at kernel.org
Tue Jun 11 01:09:45 PDT 2024
On 6/11/24 2:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Move the io_stat flag into the queue_limits feature field so that it
> can be set atomically and all I/O is frozen when changing the flag.
Why a feature ? It seems more appropriate for io_stat to be a flag rather than
a feature as that is a block layer thing rather than a device characteristic, no ?
>
> Simplify md and dm to set the flag unconditionally instead of avoiding
> setting a simple flag for cases where it already is set by other means,
> which is a bit pointless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research
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