Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: introduce polling on bio level

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:51:43AM -0700, Andrzej Jakowski wrote:
> On 1/30/20 11:34 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Can you explain this check?  This looks weird to me  I think we need
> > a generalized check if a make_request based driver supports REQ_NOWAIT
> > instead (and as a separate patch / patchset).
> 
> Original check used to reject polled IO for stackable block devices as "not
> supported". To solve that situation I introduced additional check to reject
> all non REQ_HIPRI requests. That check is not intended to generalize, like
> you indicated, but to conservatively select which requests to accept.
> Perhaps there is better way to do that. Any suggestions?

REQ_NOWAIT and REQ_HIPRI are completley unrelated concepts and they need
to be dealt with entirely separately.



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