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On 5/17/23 18:49, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Currently, fair share from hctx_may_queue() requires two
> atomic_read(active_queues and active_requests), I think this smoothing
> method can be placed into get_tag fail path, for example, the more times
> a disk failed to get tag in a period of time, the more tag this disk can
> get, and all the information can be updated here(perhaps directly
> record how many tags a disk can get, then hctx_may_queue() still only
> require 2 atomic_read()).

That sounds interesting to me. Do you perhaps plan to implement this 
approach and to post it as a patch?

Thanks,

Bart.