Re: blk_mq_complete_request overhaul

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Any comments?

(and yes, I misspelled the nvme list address, but the interested
parties should be on linux-block anyway)

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 08:44:40AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Peters recent inquiry made me dust off various bits of unfinished work
> around blk_mq_complete_request and massage it into a coherent series.
> 
> This does three different things all touching the same area:
> 
>  - merge the softirq based single queue completion into the main
>    blk-mq completion mechanism, as there is a lot of duplicate logic
>    between the two
>  - move the error injection that just fails to complete requests out into
>    the drivers.  The fact that blk_mq_complete_request just wouldn't
>    complete when called from the error handle has been causing all kinds
>    of pain
>  - optimize the fast path by allowing drivers to avoid the indirect call
>    with a little more work for polled or per-CPU IRQ completions.  With
>    this a polled block device I/O only has two indirect calls let, one for
>    the file operation that ends up in the block device code, and another
>    one for disptching to the nvme driver
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