On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 03:47:23PM +0200, Sergei Shtepa wrote: > >> 2. Can the filter sleep or postpone bio processing to the worker thread? > > I think all of te above is fine, just for normal submit_bio based > > drivers. > > Good. But I'm starting to think that for request-based block devices, > filtering should be different. I need to check it out. As long as you filter in the submit_bio stack you handle both submit_bio and request based (blk-mq) drivers. So I don't think we hould need to handle them any differently. > I have a lot of work to do to improve the patch. If you have any questions or want to get feedback on iterations not ready to post feel free to ask me offlist.
