Re: [PATCH 3/3] nvme-pci: use queue close instead of queue freeze

[Ming Lei]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 09:28:46AM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
> Hi Ming
> 
> On 09/06/2018 06:09 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > nvme_dev_add() still may call freeze & unfreeze queue, so your patch
> > can't avoid draining queue completely here.
> 
> Yes, I know this. We still need to freeze queue when update nr_hw_queues.
> But we move forward a step at least. :)
> We don't need to drain request queue in normal case of nvme_reset_work.

It is hard to say who is the normal case. In case of CPU hotplug, it is quite
easy to trigger updating nr_hw_queues.

> 
> As for updating nr_hw_queues, we could try some other method on it next.

The thing is that draining queue may be inevitable inside reset work
function because of updating nr_hw_queues, that means the approach in
this patchset is just a partial solution

Or it may not make sense to do that because we may never remove the draining
queue in the code path of updating nr_hw_queues.

Given they belong to same issue, I suggest to solve them all.

Thanks,
Ming