On 09/13/2017 09:24 AM, Ming Lei wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 09:01:25AM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote: >> Hi ming >> >> On 09/12/2017 06:23 PM, Ming Lei wrote: >>>> @@ -1029,14 +1029,20 @@ bool blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(struct request_queue *q, struct list_head *list) >>>> if (list_empty(list)) >>>> bd.last = true; >>>> else { >>>> - struct request *nxt; >>>> - >>>> nxt = list_first_entry(list, struct request, queuelist); >>>> bd.last = !blk_mq_get_driver_tag(nxt, NULL, false); >>>> } >>>> >>>> ret = q->mq_ops->queue_rq(hctx, &bd); >>>> if (ret == BLK_STS_RESOURCE) { >>>> + /* >>>> + * If an I/O scheduler has been configured and we got a >>>> + * driver tag for the next request already, free it again. >>>> + */ >>>> + if (!list_empty(list)) { >>>> + nxt = list_first_entry(list, struct request, queuelist); >>>> + blk_mq_put_driver_tag(nxt); >>>> + } >>> The following way might be more simple and clean: >>> >>> if (nxt) >>> blk_mq_put_driver_tag(nxt); >>> >>> meantime 'nxt' need to be cleared inside the 'if (list_empty(list))' >>> before .queue_rq(). >> >> I had ever thought about that, but to avoid add extra command in the >> fast path, I made the patch above. > > Got it, so how about changing to the following way simply: > > if (nxt && !list_empty(list)) > blk_mq_put_driver_tag(nxt); > It seems that we even could change it as following: if (!list_empty(list)) blk_mq_put_driver_tag(nxt); thanks jianchao