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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/8] blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:33:45PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> When a shared kthread needs to issue a bio for a cgroup, doing so
> synchronously can lead to priority inversions as the kthread can be
> trapped waiting for that cgroup. This patch implements
> REQ_CGROUP_PUNT flag which makes submit_bio() punt the actual issuing
> to a dedicated per-blkcg work item to avoid such priority inversions.
>
> This will be used to fix priority inversions in btrfs compression and
> should be generally useful as we grow filesystem support for
> comprehensive IO control.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

Thanks,

Josef

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