Re: [PATCH v3] block: fix deadline elevator drain for zoned block devices

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On 9/26/18 7:55 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> When the deadline scheduler is used with a zoned block device, writes
> to a zone will be dispatched one at a time. This causes the warning
> message:
> 
> deadline: forced dispatching is broken (nr_sorted=X), please report this
> 
> to be displayed when switching to another elevator with the legacy I/O
> path while write requests to a zone are being retained in the scheduler
> queue.
> 
> Prevent this message from being displayed when executing
> elv_drain_elevator() for a zoned block device. __blk_drain_queue() will
> loop until all writes are dispatched and completed, resulting in the
> desired elevator queue drain without extensive modifications to the
> deadline code itself to handle forced-dispatch calls.

Dropped the previous one and added this one.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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