Re: [PATCH] block: eliminate ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE

[Jens Axboe]

On 2011-03-30 13:21, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On (03/30/11 12:16), Jens Axboe wrote:
>> How does this look? It's really two patches, but rolled up into one for
>> easier posting here.
>>
> 
> Nope, doesn't work for me. fsck.ext4 crashed the system.
> 
> __elv_add_request
> blk_flush_complete_seq
> blk_insert_flush
> __elv_add_request
> __make_request
> generic_make_request
> ?bio_alloc_bioset
> blkdev_issue_flush
> blkdev_fsync
> vfs_fsync
> [..]

Ah, this addon should behave better.

diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 6a16fea..eba4a27 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static bool blk_kick_flush(struct request_queue *q)
 	q->flush_rq.end_io = flush_end_io;
 
 	q->flush_pending_idx ^= 1;
-	__elv_add_request(q, &q->flush_rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH);
+	list_add_tail(&q->flush_rq.queuelist, &q->queue_head);
 	return true;
 }
 

-- 
Jens Axboe

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