On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 09:51:14AM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote: >> To allow lockless path lookup the list of nvme_ns structures per >> nvme_ns_head is protected by SRCU, which requires freeing the nvme_ns >> structure through call_srcu. > > I haven't read the later patches yet, but what requires sleep in the > path selection? ->make_request is allowed to sleep, and often will. >> + } else { >> + u8 eui64[8] = { 0 }, nguid[16] = { 0 }; >> + uuid_t uuid = uuid_null; >> + >> + nvme_report_ns_ids(ctrl, nsid, id, eui64, nguid, &uuid); >> + if (!uuid_equal(&head->uuid, &uuid) || >> + memcmp(&head->nguid, &nguid, sizeof(head->nguid)) || >> + memcmp(&head->eui64, &eui64, sizeof(head->eui64))) { > > Suggestion, given that this matching pattern returns in several places > would it be better to move it to nvme_ns_match_id()? I'll look into it. Maybe we'll need a nvme_ns_ids structure to avoid having tons of parameters, though. >> +/* >> + * Anchor structure for namespaces. There is one for each namespace in a >> + * NVMe subsystem that any of our controllers can see, and the namespace >> + * structure for each controller is chained of it. For private namespaces >> + * there is a 1:1 relation to our namespace structures, that is ->list >> + * only ever has a single entry for private namespaces. >> + */ >> +struct nvme_ns_head { >> + struct list_head list; > > Maybe siblings is a better name than list, > and the nvme_ns list_head should be called > sibling_entry (or just sibling)? Yeah.