Re: [PATCH 13/14] scsi: add support for a blk-mq based I/O path.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 06:13:21AM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> I see the request timer is started before calling queue_rq, but I could
> not figure out what the cancel_delayed_work here is for exactly. It
> seems if the request were to time out and the eh started while queue_rq
> was running we could end up some nasty bugs like the requested requeued
> twice.
> 
> Is the cancel_delayed_work call just to be safe or is supposed to be
> handling a case where the abort_work could be queued at this time up due
> to a request timing out while queue_rq is running? Is this case mq specific?

It was cargo cult copy & paste from the old path.  I've merged a patch
from Bart to remove it from the old code, so it should go away here as well,
thanks for the reminder.
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