blk_mq_requeue_work() inserts requeued requests in front of other requests. This is fine for all request types except for sequential zoned writes. Hence this patch. Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index e2d11183f62e..e678edca3fa8 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -1484,8 +1484,12 @@ static void blk_mq_requeue_work(struct work_struct *work) list_del_init(&rq->queuelist); blk_mq_request_bypass_insert(rq, 0); } else { + blk_insert_t insert_flags = BLK_MQ_INSERT_AT_HEAD; + list_del_init(&rq->queuelist); - blk_mq_insert_request(rq, BLK_MQ_INSERT_AT_HEAD); + if (blk_rq_is_seq_zoned_write(rq)) + insert_flags = 0; + blk_mq_insert_request(rq, insert_flags); } }