Re: [PATCH] sd_zbc: Write unlock zone from sd_uninit_cmnd()

[Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>]

On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 11:47 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 8/9/17 11:19, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > On 8/9/17 00:07, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 13:17 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > > > acquired the lock completes can cause deadlocks with scsi-mq due to
> > > > potential queue reordering if the lock owning request is requeued and
> > > > not executed.
> > > 
> > > Please note that even with scsi-sq requeueing can cause request reordering.
> > 
> > I am painfully aware of this fact... I will update the commit message to
> > reflect this.
> 
> Correction: checking the code again, I just realized that the prep_fn
> queue function, which calls sd_init_cmnd() and causes a zone to be
> write-locked if the prepared command is a write, is called within
> blk_peek_request(). That function is called in scsi_request_fn() with
> the queue lock held. So for the legacy scsi path, this means that for a
> write command to a zone, the operation "lock zone and dequeue command"
> is atomic. Thanks to the zone lock, further dequeue of write commands
> for the same (locked) zone cannot happen and so there is no reordering
> possible for write commands directed at the same zone. Reordering for
> other commands is possible, but similarly to regular disks, this is not
> a problem with ZBC/ZAC drives.

Hello Damien,

The locking approach in the upstream code indeed prevents reordering of
write requests that apply to the same zone. However, this patch modifies
the locking approach. Are you sure that with this patch applied no request
reordering will occur if requests are requeued since this patch causes the
zone lock to be released before requeuing occurs?

Bart.