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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] blk-mq: protect completion path with RCU
Hello, Christoph.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 02:04:18AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Why do you need the srcu protection? The completion path can never
> sleep.
>
> If there is a good reason to keep it please add commment, and
> make the srcu variant a separate function only used by drivers that
> need it instead of adding the conditional.

It's either that or adding protection against both srcu and rcu in the
counterpart. It's easier / cleaner to just use single rcu construct
for a given queue. Will add a comment. Jens already has a patch
which factors out the conditionals.

Thanks.

--
tejun

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