linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] blk-mq: initialize request on allocation

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Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:54:23 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Matias Bjorling <m@...rling.me>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] blk-mq: initialize request on allocation

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> If we want to share tag and request allocation between queues we cannot
> initialize the request at init/free time, but need to initialize it
> at allocation time as it might get used for different queues over its
> lifetime.

Could you explain the use pattern? Looks you mean there are
still users of the tag/req even after it is freed, that looks a bit
weird since the tag/req can still be reallocated in another path
after it is freed.

>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  block/blk-mq.c |    4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index ef7acc0..1cb7618 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static struct request *__blk_mq_alloc_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
>         tag = blk_mq_get_tag(hctx->tags, gfp, reserved);
>         if (tag != BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL) {
>                 rq = hctx->rqs[tag];
> +               blk_rq_init(hctx->queue, rq);
>                 rq->tag = tag;
>
>                 return rq;
> @@ -254,9 +255,7 @@ static void __blk_mq_free_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
>         const int tag = rq->tag;
>         struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
>
> -       blk_rq_init(hctx->queue, rq);
>         blk_mq_put_tag(hctx->tags, tag);
> -
>         blk_mq_queue_exit(q);
>  }
>
> @@ -1100,7 +1099,6 @@ static int blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
>                 left -= to_do * rq_size;
>                 for (j = 0; j < to_do; j++) {
>                         hctx->rqs[i] = p;
> -                       blk_rq_init(hctx->queue, hctx->rqs[i]);
>                         if (reg->ops->init_request) {
>                                 error = reg->ops->init_request(driver_data,
>                                                 hctx, hctx->rqs[i], i);
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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