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SubjectRe: Question on handling managed IRQs when hotplugging CPUs
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On 2/5/19 3:52 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 05:24:11AM -0800, John Garry wrote:
>> On 04/02/2019 07:12, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hannes,
>>
>>>
>>> So, as the user then has to wait for the system to declars 'ready for
>>> CPU remove', why can't we just disable the SQ and wait for all I/O to
>>> complete?
>>> We can make it more fine-grained by just waiting on all outstanding I/O
>>> on that SQ to complete, but waiting for all I/O should be good as an
>>> initial try.
>>> With that we wouldn't need to fiddle with driver internals, and could
>>> make it pretty generic.
>>
>> I don't fully understand this idea - specifically, at which layer would
>> we be waiting for all the IO to complete?
>
> Whichever layer dispatched the IO to a CPU specific context should
> be the one to wait for its completion. That should be blk-mq for most
> block drivers.
>
Indeed.
But we don't provide any mechanisms for that ATM, right?

Maybe this would be a topic fit for LSF/MM?

Cheers,

Hannes
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