On 5/14/19 7:54 AM, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > + if (!list_empty(&vpmem->req_list)) { > + req_buf = list_first_entry(&vpmem->req_list, > + struct virtio_pmem_request, list); > + req_buf->wq_buf_avail = true; > + wake_up(&req_buf->wq_buf); > + list_del(&req_buf->list); Yes, this change is the right one, thank you! > + /* > + * If virtqueue_add_sgs returns -ENOSPC then req_vq virtual > + * queue does not have free descriptor. We add the request > + * to req_list and wait for host_ack to wake us up when free > + * slots are available. > + */ > + while ((err = virtqueue_add_sgs(vpmem->req_vq, sgs, 1, 1, req, > + GFP_ATOMIC)) == -ENOSPC) { > + > + dev_err(&vdev->dev, "failed to send command to virtio pmem" \ > + "device, no free slots in the virtqueue\n"); > + req->wq_buf_avail = false; > + list_add_tail(&req->list, &vpmem->req_list); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vpmem->pmem_lock, flags); > + > + /* A host response results in "host_ack" getting called */ > + wait_event(req->wq_buf, req->wq_buf_avail); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&vpmem->pmem_lock, flags); > + } > + err1 = virtqueue_kick(vpmem->req_vq); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vpmem->pmem_lock, flags); > + > + /* > + * virtqueue_add_sgs failed with error different than -ENOSPC, we can't > + * do anything about that. > + */ > + if (err || !err1) { > + dev_info(&vdev->dev, "failed to send command to virtio pmem device\n"); > + err = -EIO; > + } else { > + /* A host repsonse results in "host_ack" getting called */ > + wait_event(req->host_acked, req->done); > + err = req->ret; > +I confirm that the failures I was facing with the `-ENOSPC` error path are not present in v9. Best, Jakub Staron