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From: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Audra Mitchell <aubaker@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, raquini@redhat.com,
	jiangshanlai@gmail.com, hirokazu.yamauchi.hk@hitachi.com,
	Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>,
	Donald Douwsma <ddouwsma@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue.c: Change workqueue to accept variable length name
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 08:29:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZ1KQN5SBvujlXF8@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZYXNMEXBnuumL3D6@mac.lan>

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 02:53:52AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 10:35:03AM -0500, Audra Mitchell wrote:
> > We have one concrete example from a Hitachi block device driver (notice the
> > 47a1/47a2 gets
> > cut off with the workqueue name):
> > 
> > Device                              Workqueue Name (24char zero terminated)
> > /dev/sd0279b080047a1   xfs-blockgc/sd0279b0800
> > /dev/sd0279b080047a2   xfs-blockgc/sd0279b0800
> 
> I see, so it's a combination of somewhat lengthy device names and then xfs
> adding a prefix to them. Neither is particularly long but the combination
> is.
> 
> > I can also imagine this issue being present with nvme devices, but the
> > request came from Hitachi.
> > I believe it would be up to the device driver to determine if the name can
> > be shortened and I've
> > included Hitachi requester on this email thread.
> > 
> > Alternatively, we could increase the size of the WQ_NAME_LEN, but it seems
> > highly likely we are
> > going to butt against the static size again in the future. We previously
> > had variable length names
> > and it seems (to me) to be the best long term path forward.
> 
> Can we just bump the length to 32 and trigger a warning if the requested
> name overruns? I want to provide some pressure to limit the length of the
> name so that it doesn't get too long over time. If folks bump into it and
> can't find a different way to deal with it, we can get bring back the
> subject.

Hey Tejun!

Hope you had a nice holiday. I just got back from a bit of a break and will
work on your suggestions this week. Thanks a bunch for your feedback!

- Audra


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-09 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-15 19:39 [PATCH] workqueue.c: Change workqueue to accept variable length name Audra Mitchell
2023-12-21 21:39 ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]   ` <CA+bDH-v6T5vvyOwsphseHwgihdGQta7TZ9tOtt-Fnij92kvU6A@mail.gmail.com>
2023-12-22 17:53     ` Tejun Heo
2024-01-09 13:29       ` Audra Mitchell [this message]
2024-01-10 20:29 ` [PATCH v2] workqueue.c: Increase workqueue name length Audra Mitchell
2024-01-10 20:47   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 21:52     ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-10 22:06       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 22:31         ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-10 22:45           ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-10 22:58             ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 22:52           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 23:08             ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH v3] " Audra Mitchell
2024-01-16 18:31   ` Tejun Heo
2024-01-17 14:40     ` Audra Mitchell
2024-01-17 17:09       ` Tejun Heo
2024-01-19 20:30         ` Audra Mitchell
2024-01-19 23:44           ` Tejun Heo

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