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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Mike Snitzer <msnitzer@redhat.com>,
	Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Guangwu Zhang <guazhang@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] completion: move blk_wait_io to kernel/sched/completion.c
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:30:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f3d434b-e05c-445f-bee5-2bb1f11a5946@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZiCoIHFLAzCva2lU@infradead.org>

On 4/17/24 10:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_long_io);
>>>
>>> Urgh, why is it a sane thing to circumvent the hang check timer? 
>>
>> The block layer already does it - the bios can have arbitrary size, so 
>> waiting for them takes arbitrary time.
> 
> And as mentioned the last few times around, I think we want a task
> state to say that task can sleep long or even forever and not propagate
> this hack even further.

It certainly is a hack/work-around, but unless there are a lot more that
should be using something like this, I don't think adding extra core
complexity in terms of a special task state (or per-task flag, at least
that would be easier) is really warranted.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-18 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-17 17:49 [PATCH 1/2] completion: move blk_wait_io to kernel/sched/completion.c Mikulas Patocka
2024-04-17 17:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-04-17 18:00   ` Mikulas Patocka
2024-04-18  4:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-18 14:30       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2024-04-18 14:46         ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-18 15:09           ` Jens Axboe
2024-04-22 10:59       ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-04-23 12:36         ` Mikulas Patocka
2024-04-26  6:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-22 10:54     ` Peter Zijlstra

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