Re: [RFC V4 0/6] blk: make blk-rq-qos policies pluggable and modular

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On 2/16/22 8:13 PM, Wang Jianchao (Kuaishou) wrote:
> Hi Jens
> 
> blk-rq-qos is a standalone framework out of io-sched and can be used to
> control or observe the IO progress in block-layer with hooks. blk-rq-qos
> is a great design but right now, it is totally fixed and built-in and shut
> out peoples who want to use it with external module.
> 
> This patchset attempts to make blk-rq-qos framework pluggable and modular.
> Then we can update the blk-rq-qos policy module w/o stopping the IO workload.
> And it is more convenient to introduce new policy on old machines w/o udgrade
> kernel. And we can close all of the blk-rq-qos policy if we needn't any of
> them. At the moment, the request_queue.rqos list is empty, we needn't to
> waste cpu cyles on them.

I like this patchset, would be a lot more convenient and helps
efficiency.

What kind of testing have you done on it?

-- 
Jens Axboe




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