linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] blk-mq: fill header with kernel-doc

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Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 10:30:58 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        axboe@...nel.dk, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] blk-mq: fill header with kernel-doc

On 10/8/19 9:35 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com> writes:
> 
>> diff --git a/include/linux/blk-mq.h b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
>> index e0fce93ac127..8b745f229789 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/blk-mq.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
>> @@ -10,74 +10,153 @@ struct blk_mq_tags;
>>   struct blk_flush_queue;
>>   
>>   /**
>> - * struct blk_mq_hw_ctx - State for a hardware queue facing the hardware block device
>> + * struct blk_mq_hw_ctx - State for a hardware queue facing the hardware
>> + * block device
>>    */
>>   struct blk_mq_hw_ctx {
>>   	struct {
>> +		/** @lock: Lock for accessing dispatch queue */
>>   		spinlock_t		lock;
>> +		/**
>> +		 * @dispatch: Queue of dispatched requests, waiting for
>> +		 * workers to send them to the hardware.
>> +		 */
> 
> It's been a few years since I looked at the block layer, but isn't
> this used to hold requests that were taken from the blk_mq_ctx,  but
> couldn't be dispatched because the queue was full?

I don't think so. I think that you are looking for the requeue_list 
member of struct request_queue.

Bart.