Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:11:29 -0800 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ipi_redirect vs rq_affinity |
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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
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