Hi Jens These patch set refactors the code of issueing request driectly and fix some defects. The 1st patch make __blk_mq_issue_directly be able to accept NULL cookie pointer. The 2nd patch refactors the code of issue request directly. It merges the blk_mq_try_issue_directly and __blk_mq_try_issue_directly and make it handle the return value of .queue_rq itself. The 3rd patch let the requests be inserted into hctx->dispatch when the queue is stopped or quiesced if bypass is true. The 4th patch make blk_mq_sched_insert_requests issue requests directly with 'bypass' false, then it needn't to handle the non-issued requests any more. The 5th patch ensures the hctx to be ran on its mapped cpu in issue directly path. V4: - split the original patch 1 into two patches, 1st and 2nd patch currently - rename the mq_decision to mq_issue_decision - comment changes V3: - Correct the code about the case bypass_insert is true and io scheduler attached. The request still need to be issued in case above. (1/4) - Refactor the code to make code clearer. blk_mq_make_request is introduced to decide insert, end or just return based on the return value of .queue_rq and bypass_insert (1/4) - Add the 2nd patch. It introduce a new decision result which indicates to insert request with blk_mq_request_bypass_insert. - Modify the code to adapt the new patch 1. V2: - Add 1st and 2nd patch Jianchao Wang (5) blk-mq: make __blk_mq_issue_directly be able to accept blk-mq: refactor the code of issue request directly blk-mq: fix issue directly case when q is stopped or blk-mq: issue directly with bypass 'false' in blk-mq: ensure hctx to be ran on mapped cpu when issue block/blk-mq-sched.c | 8 ++- block/blk-mq.c | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 2 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) Thanks Jianchao