Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:51:58 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: ipi_redirect vs rq_affinity |
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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.
I don't think arbitrarily breaking this fairly widely used interface when a driver is moving to blk-mq sounds like a good idea. Maybe we should allow for setting descriptive strings as well?
Also the different on semantics do matter for some use cases, and we should support both for blk-mq.
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