Re: [PATCH RFC v4 2/3] iomap: use BIO_COMPLETE_IN_TASK for dropbehind writeback

From: Christoph Hellwig

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 02:38:48 EST


On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 02:24:02PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> - use EROFS directly, in that case, we still need process
> contexts to decompress, but due to Android latency
> requirements, they really need per-cpu RT threads instead,
> otherwise it will cause serious regression too; but I'm not
> sure that case can be replaced by this work since workqueues
> don't support RT threads and I guess generic block layer
> won't be bothered with that too.

All of the I/O completions should be latency sensitive. So I think it
would be great if you could help out here with the requirements and
implementation.