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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: plug problem in linux-2.4.0-test11
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:23:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001129152308.A28399@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C12569A6.00425037.00@d12mta07.de.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <C12569A6.00425037.00@d12mta07.de.ibm.com>; from schwidefsky@de.ibm.com on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:56:44PM +0100

On Wed, Nov 29 2000, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com wrote:
> request queue to put them on its internal queue. You could argue
> that it shouldn't dequeue request if q->plugged == 1. On the other
> hand why not, before the disk has nothing to do. Anyway the result

I agree with your reasoning, even if the s390 behaviour is a bit
"non-standard" wrt block devices. Linus, could you apply?

--- drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~	Wed Nov 29 15:17:33 2000
+++ drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	Wed Nov 29 15:18:43 2000
@@ -347,10 +347,9 @@
  */
 static inline void __generic_unplug_device(request_queue_t *q)
 {
-	if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
-		q->plugged = 0;
+	q->plugged = 0;
+	if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head))
 		q->request_fn(q);
-	}
 }
 
 static void generic_unplug_device(void *data)

-- 
* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-29 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-29 11:56 plug problem in linux-2.4.0-test11 schwidefsky
2000-11-29 14:23 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2000-11-29 17:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-29 18:11     ` Jens Axboe
2000-12-27 20:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-28 13:47   ` Jens Axboe

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