Re: [PATCH 1/9] blk-mq: allow hw queues to share hostwide tags

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On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 08:37:39AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 5/30/19 7:27 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
> > index 6aea0ebc3a73..3d6780504dcb 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
> > @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ static const char *const alloc_policy_name[] = {
> >   static const char *const hctx_flag_name[] = {
> >   	HCTX_FLAG_NAME(SHOULD_MERGE),
> >   	HCTX_FLAG_NAME(TAG_SHARED),
> > +	HCTX_FLAG_NAME(HOST_TAGS),
> >   	HCTX_FLAG_NAME(BLOCKING),
> >   	HCTX_FLAG_NAME(NO_SCHED),
> >   };
> 
> The name BLK_MQ_F_HOST_TAGS suggests that tags are shared across a SCSI
> host. That is misleading since this flag means that tags are shared across
> hardware queues. Additionally, the "host" term is a term that comes from the
> SCSI world and this patch is a block layer patch. That makes me wonder
> whether another name should be used to reflect that all hardware queues
> share the same tag set? How about renaming BLK_MQ_F_TAG_SHARED into
> BLK_MQ_F_TAG_QUEUE_SHARED and renaming BLK_MQ_F_HOST_TAGS into
> BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED?

Looks fine, will do it in V2.

Thanks,
Ming



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