On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 18:44 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 09:46:45PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 22:21 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > > bool blk_mq_can_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) > > > @@ -1108,13 +1119,15 @@ static void __blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) > > > > > > if (!(hctx->flags & BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING)) { > > > rcu_read_lock(); > > > - blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(hctx); > > > + if (!blk_queue_quiesced(hctx->queue)) > > > + blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(hctx); > > > rcu_read_unlock(); > > > } else { > > > might_sleep(); > > > > > > srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&hctx->queue_rq_srcu); > > > - blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(hctx); > > > + if (!blk_queue_quiesced(hctx->queue)) > > > + blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(hctx); > > > srcu_read_unlock(&hctx->queue_rq_srcu, srcu_idx); > > > } > > > } > > > > Sorry but I don't like these changes. Why have the blk_queue_quiesced() > > calls be added at other code locations than the blk_mq_hctx_stopped() calls? > > This will make the block layer unnecessary hard to maintain. Please consider > > to change the blk_mq_hctx_stopped(hctx) calls in blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() > > and *blk_mq_*run_hw_queue*() into blk_mq_hctx_stopped(hctx) || blk_queue_quiesced(q). > > One benefit is that we make it explicit that the flag has to be checked > inside the RCU read-side critical sections. If you put it somewhere, > someone may put it out of read-side critical sections in future. Hello Ming, I really would like to see the blk_queue_quiesced() tests as close as possible to the blk_mq_hctx_stopped() tests. But I agree that we need a way to document and/or verify that these tests occur with an RCU read-side lock held. Have you considered to use rcu_read_lock_held() to document this? Thanks, Bart.