Re: [patch]blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to_rq should handle flush request

[Jens Axboe]

On 2014-06-04 09:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:08:12AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 2014-06-04 09:05, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:02:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > OK strange, there hasn't been that much churn since the last rebase.
> > > > In my for-linus, there's a patch for a single queue crash, but that
> > > > should just hit for the removal case. And then there's the atomic
> > > > schedule patch, but that issue was actually in the code base for
> > > > about a month, so not a new one either.
> > >
> > > You're request initializaion optimization doesn't set up req->cmd and
> > > thus causes all BLOCK_PC I/O (including the SCSI LUN scan) to crash and
> > > burn.  The trivial fix is on your way.
> >
> > OK. That'll arguably be a good cleanup as well, getting that
> > initialized in the right place. I hate the 'lets clear all the
> > memory' part of rq init, it's not super cheap to do.
>
> What would the right place be?  We don't really know if a request is
> going to be used for BLOCK_PC purposes until it has been returned to
> the caller.

Probably split the init, so instead of directly assigning the type as 
BLOCK_PC (or similar), then have an init function for that that clears 
the parts.

> I also found another issue when just initializing req->cmd instead
> of blindly reverting the patch due to the lack of req->biotail
> initialization.  For now I'll got back to a revert of that patch
> for my scsi-mq tree, and I'd prefer to keep that for mainline as well
> until this has been throughoutly tested.

That's fine. I'll get this cleaned up, or consider a revert in the block 
tree as well.

--
Jens Axboe

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