blk-mq: Avoid that requeueing starts stopped queues
Since blk_mq_requeue_work() starts stopped queues and since
execution of this function can be scheduled after a queue has
been stopped it is not possible to stop queues without using
an additional state variable to track whether or not the queue
has been stopped. Hence modify blk_mq_requeue_work() such that it
does not start stopped queues. My conclusion after a review of
the blk_mq_stop_hw_queues() and blk_mq_{delay_,}kick_requeue_list()
callers is as follows:
* In the dm driver starting and stopping queues should only happen
if __dm_suspend() or __dm_resume() is called and not if the
requeue list is processed.
* In the SCSI core queue stopping and starting should only be
performed by the scsi_internal_device_block() and
scsi_internal_device_unblock() functions but not by any other
function. Although the blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() call in
scsi_queue_rq() may help to reduce CPU load if a LLD queue is
full, figuring out whether or not a queue should be restarted
when requeueing a command would require to introduce additional
locking in scsi_mq_requeue_cmd() to avoid a race with
scsi_internal_device_block(). Avoid this complexity by removing
the blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() call from scsi_queue_rq().
* In the NVMe core only the functions that call
blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues() explicitly should start stopped
queues.
* A blk_mq_start_stopped_hwqueues() call must be added in the
xen-blkfront driver in its blkif_recover() function.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 447c37f..d95034a 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -501,11 +501,7 @@ static void blk_mq_requeue_work(struct work_struct *work)
blk_mq_insert_request(rq, false, false, false);
}
- /*
- * Use the start variant of queue running here, so that running
- * the requeue work will kick stopped queues.
- */
- blk_mq_start_hw_queues(q);
+ blk_mq_run_hw_queues(q, false);
}
void blk_mq_add_to_requeue_list(struct request *rq, bool at_head)
