Re: [RFC V4 1/6] blk: prepare to make blk-rq-qos pluggable and modular

[Wang Jianchao]

On 2022/2/24 10:07 上午, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 09:51:04AM +0800, Wang Jianchao wrote:
>> The initial version of this patchset has two targets：
>> (1) Add a sysfs interface to open/close the policy per device. Then we needn't
>>     waste cpu cycles and memory if the device doesn't need the policy.
>> (2) Make the policies modular, then it easy to maintain the code of policy in
>>     production environment as we only need to close the policy and replace the
>>     .ko file.
>>
>> The loading module when open policy in sysfs interface is just to avoid modprobe
>> manually. There is similar operation when switch io scheduler.
> 
> Each rq-qos mechanism already needs and has a way to turn off itself.
> There's no reason to add another layer on top. If the current way of
> disabling isn't efficient, we should improve that instead of adding a new
> layer of interface on top.

Yes, right now, every policy has their own way to turn off, but we always need to
iterate the rqos list and enter into the policy's callback to check it. And every
blkio cgroup needs to allocate memory for it even we don't use it.

I don't this patchset is adding a new layer, but blk-rq-qos layer has been already
there , we just add a unified interface to open/close the policies.

Thanks
Jianchao