On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 15:14 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > - return rq_entry_fifo(dd->fifo_list[data_dir].next); > + if (!dd->zones_wlock || data_dir == READ) > + return rq_entry_fifo(dd->fifo_list[data_dir].next); > + > + spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->zone_lock, flags); > + > + list_for_each_entry(rq, &dd->fifo_list[WRITE], queuelist) { > + if (deadline_can_dispatch_request(dd, rq)) > + goto out; > + } > + rq = NULL; > + > +out: > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->zone_lock, flags); Is it documented somewhere what dd->zone_lock protects and when that lock should be acquired? > /* > * This may be a requeue of a request that has locked its > - * target zone. If this is the case, release the request zone lock. > + * target zone. If this is the case, release the zone lock. > */ > if (deadline_request_has_zone_wlock(rq)) > deadline_wunlock_zone(dd, rq); Can this change be folded into the patch that introduced that comment? > @@ -570,6 +621,9 @@ static void dd_insert_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *rq, > > blk_mq_sched_request_inserted(rq); > > + if (at_head && deadline_request_needs_zone_wlock(dd, rq)) > + pr_info("######## Write at head !\n"); > + > if (at_head || blk_rq_is_passthrough(rq)) { > if (at_head) > list_add(&rq->queuelist, &dd->dispatch); Will it be easy to users who analyze a kernel log to figure out why that message has been generated? Should that message perhaps include the block device name, zone number and request sector number? Thanks, Bart.