linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V8 00/14] mmc: Add Command Queue support

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:08:10 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        linux-mmc <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bough Chen <haibo.chen@....com>,
        Alex Lemberg <alex.lemberg@...disk.com>,
        Mateusz Nowak <mateusz.nowak@...el.com>,
        Yuliy Izrailov <Yuliy.Izrailov@...disk.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
        Dong Aisheng <dongas86@...il.com>,
        Das Asutosh <asutoshd@...eaurora.org>,
        Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...il.com>,
        Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org>,
        Harjani Ritesh <riteshh@...eaurora.org>,
        Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 00/14] mmc: Add Command Queue support

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> wrote:

> Actually completing the request in the ->done callback, may still be
> possible, because in principle it only needs to inform the other
> prepared request that it may start, before it continues to post
> process/completes the current one.

I try to do that in this patch:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-mmc&m=148665460925587&w=2

I'm trying to rebase this work now.

> However, by looking at for example how mmci.c works, it actually holds
> its spinlock while it calls mmc_request_done(). The same spinlock is
> taken in the ->request() function, but not in the ->post_req()
> function. In other words, completing the request in the ->done()
> callback, would make mmci to keep the spinlock held throughout the
> post processing cycle, which then prevents the next request from being
> started.

It seems my patch would not deliver in some drivers until we look
into the locking semantics in the drivers.

Yours,
Linus Walleij