sorting out the freeze / quiesce mess

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 11/10/21 10:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens and Ming,
> 
> I've been looking into properly supporting queue freezing for bio based
> drivers (that is only release q_usage_counter on bio completion for them).
> And the deeper I look into the code the more I'm confused by us having
> the blk_mq_quiesce* interface in addition to blk_freeze_queue.  What
> is a good reason to do a quiesce separately from a freeze?
> 
IIRC the 'quiesce' interface was an abstraction from the SCSI 'quiesce'
operation, where we had to stop all I/O except for TMFs and scanning.
And 'freeze' was designed fro stopping all I/O.

But I'm not sure if that ever was the distinction, or if it still
applies today.

And yeah, I've been wondering myself.

Probably we should just kill the 'quiesce' stuff and see where we end up :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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