[dm-devel] RE: [RFC PATCH 1/8] rqbased-dm: allow blk_get_request() to be called from interrupt context

["Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth w chen intel com>]

Kiyoshi Ueda wrote on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:50 AM
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:48:49 +0100, Jens Axboe <jens axboe oracle com> wrote:
> > Big NACK on this - it's not only really ugly, it's also buggy to pass
> > interrupt flags as function arguments. As you also mention in the 0/1
> > mail, this also breaks CFQ.
> > 
> > Why do you need in-interrupt request allocation?
>  
> Because I'd like to use blk_get_request() in q->request_fn()
> which can be called from interrupt context like below:
>   scsi_io_completion -> scsi_end_request -> scsi_next_command
>   -> scsi_run_queue -> blk_run_queue -> q->request_fn
> 
> [ ...]
> 
> Do you think creating another function like blk_get_request_nowait()
> is acceptable?

You don't need to create another function.  blk_get_request already
have both wait and nowait semantics via gfp_mask argument. If you can
not block, then clear __GFP_WAIT bit in the mask before calling
blk_get_request.

- Ken