Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] Revert "scsi: core: run queue if SCSI device queue isn't ready and queue is idle"

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On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:04:02AM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> This reverts commit 7e70aa789d4a0c89dbfbd2c8a974a4df717475ec.
> 
> Now that we have the patches ("blk-mq: In blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()
> "no budget" is a reason to kick") and ("blk-mq: Rerun dispatching in
> the case of budget contention") we should no longer need the fix in
> the SCSI code.  Revert it, resolving conflicts with other patches that
> have touched this code.
> 
> With this revert (and the two new patches) I can run the script that
> was in commit 7e70aa789d4a ("scsi: core: run queue if SCSI device
> queue isn't ready and queue is idle") in a loop with no failure.  If I
> do this revert without the two new patches I can easily get a failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I don't know for sure that we can revert this patch, but in the very
> least the original test case now passes.  If there is any question
> about this, we can just drop this patch.

I think it is safe to revert this patch.

This patch should have been one workaround in case of dispatch from hctx->dispatch,
since there is one race. When dispatch from scheduler queue, any
IO completion will re-run all hctxs, so no need to do the trick.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>


thanks,
Ming




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