On 10/24/18 5:19 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 03:23:30AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> JFYI, I also reordered the series to make it correct. You can apply >> this one: >> >> http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=mq-conversions&id=2b2ffa16193e9a69a076595ed64429b8cc9b42aa >> >> before the bsg patch, and it should be fine. Or just use the above branch, >> of course. > > Hell no on that one. The behavior of having methods right on the > request_queue which can be changed any time is something we absolutely > must not introduce into blk-mq. I agree it's not the prettiest, but it's not like it's something that is changed at runtime. > Just add pass a timeout hander to bsg_register_queue which is called > from the bsg ->timeout handler is a much better way to sort our your > problem. It can also easily be turned into an independent prep patch. Good idea, that is cleaner. -- Jens Axboe