Hello, On 10/26/2012 02:07 PM, Venkatraman S wrote:
> > Actually there could a lot of reasons why block layer or CFQ would not have > inserted the request into the queue. i.e. you can see a lot of exit paths > where blk_peek_request returns NULL, even though there could be any request > pending in one of the CFQ requests queues. > > Essentially you need to check what makes blk_fetch_request > (cfq_dispatch_requests() ) return NULL when there is an element in > queue, if at all. > This is not important why block layer causes to blk_fetch_request() (or blk_peek_request()) to return NULL to the MMC layer, but what is really important - MMC layer should always be able to fetch the new arrived request ASAP, after block layer notification (mmc_request() ) and this is what my fix goes to implement. And the fix is not changing block layer behavior. Thanks -- Konstantin Dorfman, QUALCOMM ISRAEL, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
