On 10/31/20 4:41 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2020-10-29 14:07:59 [-0700], Sagi Grimberg wrote: >>> in which context? >> >> Not sure what is the question. > > The question is in which context do you complete your requests. My guess > by now is "usually softirq/NAPI and context in rare error case".
There really aren't any rules for this, and it's perfectly legit to complete from process context. Maybe you're a kthread driven driver and that's how you handle completions. The block completion path has always been hard IRQ safe, but possible to call from anywhere. -- Jens Axboe
