On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hans...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 10 November 2017 at 11:01, Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> wrote: >> This is the fifth iteration of this patch set. >> >> I *HOPE* that we can scrap this patch set and merge Adrian's >> patches instead, because they also bring CQE support which is >> nice. I had some review comments on his series, mainly that >> it needs to kill off the legacy block layer code path that >> noone likes anyway. >> >> So this is mainly an academic and inspirational exercise. >> Whatever remains of this refactoring, if anything, I can >> certainly do on top of Adrian's patches as well. >> >> What changed since v4 is the error path, since Adrian pointed >> out that the error handling seems to be fragile. It was indeed >> fragile... To make sure things work properly I have run long >> test rounds with fault injection, essentially: > > Please correct me if I am wrong, the issues was observed already in > patch 11, before the actual switch to mq was done, right?
Yes. That's where I fixed it up mostly. > Moreover, for reasons brought up while reviewing Adrian's series, > regarding if mq is "ready", and because I see that the diff for patch > 12 is small, I suggest that we just skip the step adding a Kconfig > option to allow an opt-in of the mq path. In other words, *the* patch > that makes the switch to mq, should also remove the entire left over > of rubbish code, from the legacy request path. That's also what you do > in patch12, nice! Partly true. Adrian also pointed out the rubbishness of the error handling code in the old stack, and my patch set does *not* fix that. It is also a part of his patch set I like very much and a reason why I would prefer to use Adrian's patches if possible. We have the following risk factors: - Observed performance degradation of 1% (on x86 SDHI I guess) - The kernel crashes if SD card is removed (both patch sets) - The risk of something nasty happening we don't know of > Finally, I understand that you would be happy to scrap this series, > but instead let Adrian's series, when re-posted, to go first. Could > you perhaps re-consider that, because I wonder if it may not be > smother and less risky, to actually apply everything up to patch 11 in > this series? This is possible. But I think it is preferred to proceed with Adrian's patches. I really like the looks of the code. He says he's coming back with a set that also kills off the old block layer, and I am pretty positive I will just ACK the whole thing. I optimistically think we can jointly fix the card removal issue and possible also mitigate or root-cause the performance degradation observed by Adrian In the best of worlds, Ming Lei's patches will just fix this too (we'll see, we can probably get a branch from the block people to try it) else we can use tracing and perf to drill into it I guess. > I noticed that you reported issues with card removal during I/O (for > both yours and Adrian's mq patch), but does those problems exists at > patch 11 - or is those explicitly introduced with the mk patch (patch > 12)? I tested it and it is present earlier in the series. I would have to revisit and hash it out. > Of course, I realize that if we apply everything up to patch11, that > would require a massive re-base of Adrian's mq/CQE series, but on the > other hand, then matter which mq patch we decide to go with, it should > be a rather small diff, thus easy to review and less risky. At this point I would prefer to use Adrian's series. He has explained pretty well his reasoning and when I tested the code it was performing well. I have some outstanding thingies, but this I can just as well do on top of his patches. Yours, Linus Walleij
