[PATCH] NVMe: do not touch sq door bell if nvmeq has been suspended

Sagi Grimberg sagig at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Feb 7 05:41:53 PST 2016


> Keith,
>
> Is the following solution OK?
> synchronize_rcu guarantee that no queue_rq is running concurrently with device disable code.
> Together with your another patch (adding blk_sync_queue), both sync/async path shall be handled correctly.

This can be acceptable I think.

> Do you think synchronize_rcu shall be added to blk_sync_queue?

Or, we'll add it to blk_mq_stop_hw_queues() and then scsi
will enjoy it as well.

> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 4c0622f..bfe9132 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -865,7 +865,9 @@ void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async)
>          if (!async) {
>                  int cpu = get_cpu();
>                  if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, hctx->cpumask)) {
> +                       rcu_read_lock();
>                          __blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx);
> +                       rcu_read_unlock();

I think the rcu is better folded into __blk_mq_run_hw_queue
to cover all the call sites.



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