On (03/28/18 10:29), wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello Bart, > > We have a detailed discussion of the problem. > Sergey Senozhatsky, Petr and many people have made a lot of efforts about > it. > Please see this link: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199003 > > 1, Petr suggests that it should be modified in this way: > IMHO, printing the same message so many times is useless. Therefore > some throttling would make sense. If we want to keep sdev_printk(), The thing with retelimiting is that - yes, we do less printks but we still do them under queue spin_lock. So I was thinking about something like below [a quick-n-dirty workaround] --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 0dfec0dedd5e..6c930fbdd24c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1825,9 +1825,13 @@ static void scsi_request_fn(struct request_queue *q) break; if (unlikely(!scsi_device_online(sdev))) { + scsi_kill_request(req, q); + spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); + sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, sdev, "rejecting I/O to offline device\n"); - scsi_kill_request(req, q); + + spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); continue; }