Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] blk-mq: Remove generation seqeunce

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:22:40AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:04:46PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 09:56 -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > Even some scsi drivers are susceptible to losing their requests with the
> > > reverted behavior: take virtio-scsi for example, which returns RESET_TIMER
> > > from it's timeout handler. With the behavior everyone seems to want,
> > > a natural completion at or around the same time is lost forever because
> > > it was blocked from completion with no way to recover.
> > 
> > The patch I had posted handles a completion that occurs while a timeout is
> > being handled properly. From https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg22196.html:
> 
> Sounds like a win-win to me.

How do we get a fix into 4.18 at this part of the cycle?  I think that
is the most important prirority right now.



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