Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: provide an explicit n:1 mapping for single queue devices
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: 2017-07-27 14:10:01
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: 2017-07-27 14:10:01
On 07/27/2017 07:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 02:40:50PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:quoted
On 07/26/2017 02:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:quoted
This avoids having to deal with the nr_hw_queues = 1 case in the various queue mapping helpers by special casing it in the blk-mq core.Why special case it at all? If ->map_queues() is properly written, the single queue case should just fall out naturally. I don't see why 1 should be any different than 2, 4, or N.Because 1 means everything maps to queue 0 and there is no point in asking any lower layers for a specific mapping. We could instead special case it in pci, virtio and the upcoming rdma handler, or we could just do it once in the core and get same result with less overhead.
Sure, my point is that the nr_queues == 1 case should just naturally fall out of the mapping function, it's no more special than the other ones. -- Jens Axboe