On 10/31/20 9:00 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 10/31/20 4:41 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >> On 2020-10-29 14:07:59 [-0700], Sagi Grimberg wrote: >>>> in which context? >>> >>> Not sure what is the question. >> >> The question is in which context do you complete your requests. My guess >> by now is "usually softirq/NAPI and context in rare error case". > > There really aren't any rules for this, and it's perfectly legit to > complete from process context. Maybe you're a kthread driven driver and > that's how you handle completions. The block completion path has always > been hard IRQ safe, but possible to call from anywhere. A more recent example is polled IO, which will always complete from process/task context and very much is fast path. -- Jens Axboe
