On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:35:51AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > blk-mq passes information to the hardware about any given request being > the last that we will issue in this sequence. The point is that hardware > can defer costly doorbell type writes to the last request. But if we run > into errors issuing a sequence of requests, we may never send the request > with bd->last == true set. For that case, we need a hook that tells the > hardware that nothing else is coming right now. > > For failures returned by the drivers ->queue_rq() hook, the driver is > responsible for flushing pending requests, if it uses bd->last to > optimize that part. This works like before, no changes there. > > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> This looks fine, but normally I would only add the method together with the actual user.. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
