Re: [PATCH 3/3] blk-mq: Use llist_head for blk_cpu_done

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 28 2020 - 18:11:50 EST


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 03:12:51PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> static int blk_softirq_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> - /*
> - * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU
> - * and trigger a run of the softirq
> - */
> - local_irq_disable();
> - list_splice_init(&per_cpu(blk_cpu_done, cpu),
> - this_cpu_ptr(&blk_cpu_done));
> - raise_softirq_irqoff(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ);
> - local_irq_enable();
> -
> + blk_complete_reqs(&per_cpu(blk_cpu_done, cpu));
> return 0;

How can this be preempted? Can't we keep using this_cpu_ptr here?