Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Mdmonitor: Improve udev event handling

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On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 11:35:57 -0400
Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 7/5/23 10:50, Mateusz Grzonka wrote:
> > Mdmonitor is waiting for udev queue to become empty.
> > Even if the queue becomes empty, udev might still be processing last event.
> > However we want to wait and wake up mdmonitor when udev finished
> > processing events..
> > 
> > Also, the udev queue interface is considered legacy and should not be
> > used outside of udev.
> > 
> > Use udev monitor instead, and wake up mdmonitor on every event triggered
> > by udev for md block device.
> > 
> > We need to generate more change events from kernel, because they are
> > missing in some situations, for example, when rebuild started.
> > This will be addressed in a separate patch.
> > 
> > Move udev specific code into separate functions, and place them in udev.c
> > file. Also move use_udev() logic from lib.c into newly created file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Grzonka <mateusz.grzonka@xxxxxxxxx>  
> 
> Generally looks good to me.
> 
> One question, is there a minimum version of udev required for this to
> work or has it been around long enough that we don't need to worry?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jes
> 
> 

Hi Jes,
We don't need to worry. I checked one random commit (25e773e) from 2014 and
udev_monitor stuff is there.

Thanks,
Mariusz



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