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From: "Steve Wise" <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: "'Bart Van Assche'" <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
	"'James Bottomley'" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"'Jens Axboe'" <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'Martin K. Petersen'" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	"'Mike Snitzer'" <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	<linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	"'Keith Busch'" <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	"'Doug Ledford'" <dledford@redhat.com>,
	<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, "'Christoph Hellwig'" <hch@lst.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 9/9] [RFC] nvme: Fix a race condition
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:23:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009601d21993$d2d33670$7879a350$@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fb86a78-de3a-b764-a493-cb5bc5b6d8b6@sandisk.com>

> 
> Hello James and Steve,
> 
> I will add a comment.
> 
> Please note that the above patch does not change the behavior of
> nvme_stop_queues() except that it causes nvme_stop_queues() to wait
> until any ongoing nvme_queue_rq() calls have finished.
> blk_resume_queue() does not affect the value of the BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED bit
> that has been set by blk_mq_stop_hw_queues(). All it does is to resume
> pending blk_queue_enter() calls and to ensure that future
> blk_queue_enter() calls do not block. Even after blk_resume_queue() has
> been called if a new request is queued queue_rq() won't be invoked
> because the BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED bit is still set. Patch "dm: Fix a race
> condition related to stopping and starting queues" realizes a similar
> change in the dm driver and that change has been tested extensively.
> 

Thanks for the detailed explanation!  I think your code, then, is correct as-is.   And this series doesn't fix the issue I'm hitting, so I'll keep digging. :)

Steve.  


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-26 18:25 [PATCH 0/9] Introduce blk_quiesce_queue() and blk_resume_queue() Bart Van Assche
2016-09-26 18:26 ` [PATCH 1/9] blk-mq: Introduce blk_mq_queue_stopped() Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27  6:20   ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-09-27  7:38   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-09-26 18:26 ` [PATCH 2/9] dm: Fix a race condition related to stopping and starting queues Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27  6:21   ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-09-27  7:47   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-09-26 18:27 ` [PATCH 3/9] [RFC] nvme: Use BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED instead of QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED in blk-mq code Bart Van Assche
2016-09-26 18:27 ` [PATCH 4/9] block: Move blk_freeze_queue() and blk_unfreeze_queue() code Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27  6:26   ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-09-27  7:52     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-09-26 18:27 ` [PATCH 5/9] block: Extend blk_freeze_queue_start() to the non-blk-mq path Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27  7:50   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-09-27 13:22   ` Ming Lei
2016-09-27 14:42     ` Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27 15:55       ` Bart Van Assche
2016-09-26 18:28 ` [PATCH 6/9] block: Rename mq_freeze_wq and mq_freeze_depth Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27  7:51   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-09-26 18:28 ` [PATCH 7/9] blk-mq: Introduce blk_quiesce_queue() and blk_resume_queue() Bart Van Assche
2016-09-26 18:28 ` [PATCH 8/9] SRP transport: Port srp_wait_for_queuecommand() to scsi-mq Bart Van Assche
2016-09-26 18:28 ` [PATCH 9/9] [RFC] nvme: Fix a race condition Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27 16:31   ` Steve Wise
2016-09-27 16:43     ` Bart Van Assche
2016-09-27 16:56       ` James Bottomley
2016-09-27 17:09         ` Bart Van Assche
2016-09-28 14:23           ` Steve Wise [this message]
2016-09-27 16:56       ` Steve Wise
2016-09-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 0/9] Introduce blk_quiesce_queue() and blk_resume_queue() Mike Snitzer
2016-09-26 18:46   ` Bart Van Assche
2016-09-26 22:26   ` Bart Van Assche
2016-10-11 16:27 ` Laurence Oberman

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