linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: mq flush: fix race between IPI handler and mq flush worker

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Message-ID: <20140527185301.GA8466@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 20:53:01 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: mq flush: fix race between IPI handler and mq
	flush worker

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:38:15PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2014-05-27 12:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Here is my counter proposal that requeues via two lists and a work struct
>> in the request_queue.  I've also tested it with scsi-mq.
>>
>
> I like this, moves the state out of the request. But how about we 
> consolidate the two requeue requests lists, and just mark the request as 
> needing head insertion instead? Just add a cmd_flags flag, REQ_REQUEUE_HEAD 
> or something.

That should be doable, just didn't like introducing even more flags.
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