Hi-- On 3/22/24 19:53, Yu Kuai wrote: > From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> > > One the one hand, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL since 2017, and looks like > there are no users since then, and no testers and no developers, it's > just not active at all. > > On the other hand, even if the config is disabled, there are still many > fields in throtl_grp and throtl_data and many functions that are only > used for throtl low. > > At last, currently blk-throtl is initialized during disk initialization, > and destroyed during disk removal, and it exposes many functions to be > called directly from block layer. Hence I'm planning to optimize > blk-throtl and finially support building it as kernel module. Remove > throtl low will make the work much easier. > > Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > block/Kconfig | 11 - > block/bio.c | 1 - > block/blk-stat.c | 3 - > block/blk-sysfs.c | 7 - > block/blk-throttle.c | 901 ++----------------------------------------- > block/blk-throttle.h | 26 +- > block/blk.h | 11 - > 7 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 915 deletions(-) Here are 2 more places to patch: Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is enabled. arch/loongarch/configs/loongson3_defconfig:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW=y -- #Randy
