Hi Ming Thanks for your kindly response. On 2/15/19 10:00 AM, Ming Lei wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 09:56:25AM +0800, Jianchao Wang wrote: >> When requeue, if RQF_DONTPREP, rq has contained some driver >> specific data, so insert it to hctx dispatch list to avoid any >> merge. Take scsi as example, here is the trace event log (no >> io scheduler, because RQF_STARTED would prevent merging), >> >> kworker/0:1H-339 [000] ...1 2037.209289: block_rq_insert: 8,0 R 4096 () 32768 + 8 [kworker/0:1H] >> scsi_inert_test-1987 [000] .... 2037.220465: block_bio_queue: 8,0 R 32776 + 8 [scsi_inert_test] >> scsi_inert_test-1987 [000] ...2 2037.220466: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 R 32776 + 8 [scsi_inert_test] >> kworker/0:1H-339 [000] .... 2047.220913: block_rq_issue: 8,0 R 8192 () 32768 + 16 [kworker/0:1H] >> scsi_inert_test-1996 [000] ..s1 2047.221007: block_rq_complete: 8,0 R () 32768 + 8 [0] >> scsi_inert_test-1996 [000] .Ns1 2047.221045: block_rq_requeue: 8,0 R () 32776 + 8 [0] >> kworker/0:1H-339 [000] ...1 2047.221054: block_rq_insert: 8,0 R 4096 () 32776 + 8 [kworker/0:1H] >> kworker/0:1H-339 [000] ...1 2047.221056: block_rq_issue: 8,0 R 4096 () 32776 + 8 [kworker/0:1H] >> scsi_inert_test-1986 [000] ..s1 2047.221119: block_rq_complete: 8,0 R () 32776 + 8 [0] >> >> (32768 + 8) was requeued by scsi_queue_insert and had RQF_DONTPREP. > > scsi_mq_requeue_cmd() does uninit the request before requeuing, but > __scsi_queue_insert doesn't do that. Yes. scsi layer use both of them. > > >> Then it was merged with (32776 + 8) and issued. Due to RQF_DONTPREP, >> the sdb only contained the part of (32768 + 8), then only that part >> was completed. The lucky thing was that scsi_io_completion detected >> it and requeued the remaining part. So we didn't get corrupted data. >> However, the requeue of (32776 + 8) is not expected. >> >> Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> V2: >> - refactor the code based on Jens' suggestion >> >> block/blk-mq.c | 12 ++++++++++-- >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c >> index 8f5b533..9437a5e 100644 >> --- a/block/blk-mq.c >> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c >> @@ -737,12 +737,20 @@ static void blk_mq_requeue_work(struct work_struct *work) >> spin_unlock_irq(&q->requeue_lock); >> >> list_for_each_entry_safe(rq, next, &rq_list, queuelist) { >> - if (!(rq->rq_flags & RQF_SOFTBARRIER)) >> + if (!(rq->rq_flags & (RQF_SOFTBARRIER | RQF_DONTPREP))) >> continue; >> >> rq->rq_flags &= ~RQF_SOFTBARRIER; >> list_del_init(&rq->queuelist); >> - blk_mq_sched_insert_request(rq, true, false, false); >> + /* >> + * If RQF_DONTPREP, rq has contained some driver specific >> + * data, so insert it to hctx dispatch list to avoid any >> + * merge. >> + */ >> + if (rq->rq_flags & RQF_DONTPREP) >> + blk_mq_request_bypass_insert(rq, false); >> + else >> + blk_mq_sched_insert_request(rq, true, false, false); >> } > > Suppose it is one WRITE request to zone device, this way might break > the order. I'm not sure about this. Since the request is dispatched, it should hold and zone write lock. And also mq-deadline doesn't have a .requeue_request, zone write lock wouldn't be released during requeue. IMO, this requeue action is similar with what blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list does. The latter one also issues the request to underlying driver and requeue rqs on dispatch_list if get BLK_STS_SOURCE or BLK_STS_DEV_SOURCE. And in addition, RQF_STARTED is set by io scheduler .dispatch_request and it could be stop merging as RQF_NOMERGE_FLAGS contains it. Thanks Jianchao