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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: mq flush: fix race between IPI handler and mq flush worker
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:53:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140527185301.GA8466@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5384DB97.70606@kernel.dk>

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:38:15PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2014-05-27 12:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Here is my counter proposal that requeues via two lists and a work struct
>> in the request_queue.  I've also tested it with scsi-mq.
>>
>
> I like this, moves the state out of the request. But how about we 
> consolidate the two requeue requests lists, and just mark the request as 
> needing head insertion instead? Just add a cmd_flags flag, REQ_REQUEUE_HEAD 
> or something.

That should be doable, just didn't like introducing even more flags.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-27 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 15:05 [PATCH] block: mq flush: fix race between IPI handler and mq flush worker Ming Lei
2014-05-19 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 15:34   ` Ming Lei
2014-05-20  3:20   ` Ming Lei
2014-05-20 15:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-21  5:16       ` Ming Lei
2014-05-21  5:36         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-21  6:48           ` Ming Lei
2014-05-27 18:13             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-27 18:38               ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-27 18:53                 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-05-27 18:54                   ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-27 19:15                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-27 19:17                       ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-27 19:21                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-27 19:35                           ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-28  1:34                             ` Ming Lei
2014-05-28  2:26                               ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-28  2:31                                 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-28  5:22                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-28 14:08                                     ` Jens Axboe

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