Re: [PATCH RFC] blk-mq: Don't IPI requests on PREEMPT_RT

On 2020-10-23 12:21:30 [+0100], Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) ||
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) ||
 	    !test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, &rq->q->queue_flags))

This needs a big fat comment explaining your rationale.  And probably
a separate if statement to make it obvious as well.

Okay.
How much difference does it make between completing in-softirq vs
in-IPI? I'm asking because acquiring a spinlock_t in an IPI shouldn't be
done (as per Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst). We don't have
anything in lockdep that will complain here on !RT and we the above we
avoid the case on RT.

Sebastian