Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 11:30:55PM +0800, yu kuai wrote:
> The problem here is that remove a cgroup can also remove the blkg from radix tree,
> even through it still has active refcounts. I think this can be fixed by checking
> the cgroup online_pin first, if it's zero, we can search the blkg from the
> request_queue blkg list, where blkg will not be removed until blkg_free_workfn().
> What's better, if we can convert the blkg list to hash table with key as blk-cgroup,
> it will be much better as we can lookup from this table instead of blkcg radix tree.

Yes, I think you can really easily do that with the rhashtable.
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