On 2/24/21 10:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 09:48:21AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Would make sense to rename blk_get_request() to blk_mq_alloc_request() >> and then we have API symmetry. The get/put don't make sense when there >> are no references involved. >> >> But it's a lot of churn for very little reward, which is always kind >> of annoying. Especially for the person that has to carry the patches. > Let's do the following: > > - move the initialize_rq_fn call from blk_get_request into > blk_mq_alloc_request and make the former a trivial alias for the > latter > - migrate to the blk_mq_* versions on a per-driver/subsystem basis. > The scsi migration depends on the first item above, so it will have > to go with that or wait for the next merge window > - don't migrate the legacy ide driver, as it is about to be removed and > has a huge number of blk_get_request calls > Okay, thanks for the feedback, will try and get something together. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
