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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] A clean aEvgeniy pproach to writeout throttling
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On Monday 10 December 2007 04:16, Jens Axboe wrote:
> OK, let me get the neon out then. This has nothing to do with
> throttling, I thought I made it clear that I get why you store the
> origin queue in ->bi_queue. I'm concerned with the workings of
> redirecting a bio. Previously we looked up the queue associated with
> bio->bi_bdev inside the loop in __generic_make_request(), as is
> REQUIRED to correctly locate a DIFFERENT queue if bio->bi_bdev has
> been changed to point somewhere else.

Rhetoric aside, again.

We are only interested in throttling against the bio->bi_bdev that was
stored in the bio at the time of the call to generic_make_request, why
should we care about the redirected value?

Regards,

Daniel


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