Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] blk-flush: move the queue kick into blk_insert_cloned_request

[Tejun Heo <tj kernel org>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:22:41PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot
> a kernel with commit 4853abaae7e4a2af938115ce9071ef8684fb7af4
> (block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring
> flush flags) applied.  It turns out that an empty flush request
> can be sent into blk_insert_flush.  When the BUG_ON was fixed
> to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall.  The
> reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue.
> In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to
> kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did
> not require a flush.  A better solution is to push the queue
> kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request.
> 
> This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes
> the issue reported.
> 
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html
> 
> Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe saout de>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer redhat com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj kernel org>

Thank you for fixing this, but one curiosity, what happens for !flush
cloned requests?  Is someone else responsible for kicking the queue?

-- 
tejun