Re: [PATCH] block: eliminate ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2011-03-30 13:20, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Jens.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:16:13PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static bool blk_kick_flush(struct request_queue *q)
>>  	q->flush_rq.end_io = flush_end_io;
>>  
>>  	q->flush_pending_idx ^= 1;
>> -	elv_insert(q, &q->flush_rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE);
>> +	__elv_add_request(q, &q->flush_rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH);
> 
> Shouldn't this be list_add_tail(&rq->queuelist, &q->queue_head)?
> __elv_add_request(FLUSH) calls back into blk_insert_flush() which
> decomposes the flush request from FS into flush sequence.
> blk_kick_flush() is used to insert the decomposed sequence requests
> into the dispatch queue.

Mid-air collision, I just sent that addon out to Sergey who tested. Yes
of course it should be a regular list_add, the above is a braino.

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Jens Axboe