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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add BLK_FEAT_READ_SYNCHRONOUS and SWP_READ_SYNCHRONOUS_IO
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:14:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zwoh8DrKgSD99xVQ@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17b30f253172cce94d1e2ec86d00e82eea077bde.camel@mediatek.com>

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 09:08:10AM +0000, Qun-wei Lin (林群崴) wrote:
> The primary motivation for these new feature flags is to handle
> scenarios where we want read operations to be completed within the
> submit context, while write operations are handled in a different
> context.
> 
> This does not necessarily imply that the write operations are slow;
> rather, it is about optimizing the handling of read and write
> operations based on their specific characteristics and requirements.

So why wouldn't we always want to do that instead of making it a
per-bdev flag?


      reply	other threads:[~2024-10-12  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-19 11:29 Qun-Wei Lin
2024-09-19 11:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: add BLK_FEAT_READ_SYNCHRONOUS feature for synchronous read Qun-Wei Lin
2024-09-19 11:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, swap: introduce SWP_READ_SYNCHRONOUS_IO Qun-Wei Lin
2024-09-19 11:37 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add BLK_FEAT_READ_SYNCHRONOUS and SWP_READ_SYNCHRONOUS_IO Christoph Hellwig
2024-09-21  0:04   ` Chris Li
2024-09-27 10:14     ` Qun-wei Lin (林群崴)
2024-09-25  7:34 ` Huang, Ying
2024-10-11  9:08   ` Qun-wei Lin (林群崴)
2024-10-12  7:14     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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