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Message-ID: <20111107214451.GA14339@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:44:51 -0500
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Steffen Maier <maier@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Taraka R. Bodireddy" <tarak.reddy@...ibm.com>,
	"Seshagiri N. Ippili" <seshagiri.ippili@...ibm.com>,
	"Manvanthara B. Puttashankar" <mputtash@...ibm.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>, gmuelas@...ibm.com,
	dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Queue free fix (was Re: [PATCH] block: Free queue
 resources at blk_release_queue())

On Mon, Nov 07 2011 at 12:10pm -0500,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 07 2011 at 10:36am -0500,
> Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com> wrote:
> > Could be the block layer's onstack plugging changes are at the heart of
> > this.
> > 
> > I voiced onstack plugging concerns relative to DM some time ago
> > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/9/450) but somehow convinced myself DM was
> > fine to no longer need dm_table_unplug_all() etc.  Unfortunately I
> > cannot recall _why_ I felt that was the case.
> > 
> > So DM needs further review relative to block's onstack plugging changes
> > and DM IO completion.
> 
> dm_suspend is performed as part of the DM table reload that is being
> done my multipathd during path failure.  Seems DM no longer insures
> inflight requests have finished during dm_suspend().
> 
> Before onstack plugging (< 2.6.39):
> dm_suspend() -> dm_wait_for_completion() -> dm_unplug_all() -> dm_table_unplug_all()
> 
> After onstack plugging (>= 2.6.39, commit 7eaceaccab5f40bb):
> dm_suspend's call to dm_wait_for_completion() no longer unplugs IO
> (dm_unplug_all and dm_table_unplug_all were removed without introducing
> a clear equivalent).

If a missing unplug were a concern then dm_wait_for_completion()'s check
for inflight IO would cause dm_suspend() to hang.

So the onstack plugging changes are unlikely to be the reason for this.

Mike
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