On Fri, Jan 24 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Jens, > > it seems like blk-mq uses the ipi_redirect attribute in pretty much the > same way as the old blk-softirq code used the rq_affinity one, except > that the old code has an additional option to direct into any core in > the current package. > > Is there any good reason to not reuse the old name and semantics?
It is pretty much the same. I don't like the semantics of the old one, where it's 0/1/2 for off/on/different-on, though. Seems like now would be a good time to clean it up. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
