linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] block: cancel all throttled bios in blk_cleanup

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Date:   Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:34:49 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, tj@...nel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        yi.zhang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] block: cancel all throttled bios in
 blk_cleanup_queue()

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 08:51:15PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Throttled bios can't be issued after queue is dying in
> blk_cleanup_queue(), thus it's better to cancel them immediately
> rather than waiting for throttle is done.
> 
> For example, if user thread is throttled with low bps while is
> issuing large io, and the device is deleted. The user thread will
> wait for a long time for io to return.

blk_cleanup_queue is too late, this will need to go into del_gendisk
and on top of my "tear down file system I/O in del_gendisk" series.