It is nontrivial to derive from the blk-mq source code when
blk_mq_tags.active_queues is decremented. Hence add a comment that
explains this.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
---
v2: Rewrote the comment based on feedback from Jens.
block/blk-mq.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index f84d145490bf..09ee74056f93 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -834,6 +834,12 @@ static void blk_mq_timeout_work(struct work_struct *work)
} else {
struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
+ /*
+ * Request timeouts are handled as a forward rolling timer. If
+ * we end up here it means that no requests are pending and
+ * also that no request has been pending for a while. Mark
+ * each hctx as idle.
+ */
queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
/* the hctx may be unmapped, so check it here */
if (blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped(hctx))
--
2.14.0
