This removes the dependency on interrupts to wake up task. Set task state as TASK_RUNNING, if need_resched() returns true, while polling for IO completion. Earlier, polling task used to sleep, relying on interrupt to wake it up. This made some IO take very long when interrupt-coalescing is enabled in NVMe. Reference: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2018-February/015435.html Changes since v2->v3: -using __set_current_state() instead of set_current_state() Changes since v1->v2: -setting task state once in blk_poll, instead of multiple callers. Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index df93102..3574927 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -3164,6 +3164,7 @@ static bool __blk_mq_poll(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *rq) cpu_relax(); } + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); return false; } -- 2.7.4