Re: [PATCH] IO-Controller: clear ioq wait flag if a request goesinto that ioq

From: Gui Jianfeng
Date: Thu Aug 20 2009 - 20:58:22 EST


Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:46:10AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>> Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> ...
>>> /*
>>> * Remember that we saw a request from this process, but
>>> @@ -1940,7 +2013,7 @@ void elv_ioq_request_add(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
>>> * has other work pending, don't risk delaying until the
>>> * idle timer unplug to continue working.
>>> */
>>> - if (elv_ioq_wait_request(ioq)) {
>>> + if (group_wait || elv_ioq_wait_request(ioq)) {
>> Hi Vivek,
>>
>> I guess we need to clear ioq_wait_request flags if there are requests to
>> go in this ioq. Otherwise, once waitting request on ioq, it will go into
>> this path every time when a request is enqueued.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Gui,
>
> It does sound like that we need to clear ioq wait_request flag here. In
> fact upstream CFQ code is also not clearing this flag. Looking at the
> code, can't think why it should not be cleared here.
>
> Can you please also generate a patch for CFQ and post to lkml.
>

Sure, will do.

--
Regards
Gui Jianfeng

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