On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 03:59:20PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 07:42 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 04/28/2017 01:32 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > We have freezed queue already, not necessary to call
> > > blk_mq_quiesce_queue() any more, so remove it.
> > 
> > Are you sure? It ensures that we also aren't in the middle of
> > blk_mq_make_request(), we need a stable view of the sched
> > status throughout that.
> 
> Hello Jens,
> 
> My understanding is that blk_mq_freeze_queue() provides stronger guarantees
> than blk_mq_quiesce_queue(). The former waits until all pending requests have
> finished while the latter only waits until pending .queue_rq() calls have
> finished. blk_mq_freeze_queue() also causes new blk_get_request() calls to
> wait until blk_mq_unfreeze_queue() is called while blk_get_request() can
> still succeed after blk_mq_quiesce_queue() returned and before
> blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues() is called.
> 
> Regarding blk_mq_make_request(): I think that the blk_queue_enter() call in
> generic_make_request() prevents that blk_mq_make_request() gets called after
> a queue has been frozen.

Jens & Bart, so I understand you don't object to this patch any more,
then I will post a v1 for covering blk_mq_update_nr_requests().

Thanks,
Ming

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