[dm-devel] RFC: split scsi passthrough fields out of struct request

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:41:42PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> I removed blk-mq on request_fn paths support because it was one of the
> permutations that I felt least useful/stable (see commit c5248f79f3 "dm:
> remove support for stacking dm-mq on .request_fn device(s)")
> 
> As for all of the different IO paths.  I've always liked the idea of
> blk-mq ruling the world.  With Jens' blk-mq IO scheduling advances maybe
> we're closer!

That removed blk-mq on top of request_fn code would do the right thing
for this series if it entirely replaced the old request_fn code in dm-mpath.
(as would the new bio code for that matter)