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When invoked for an I/O request rq, the prepare_request hook of bfq increments reference counters in the destination bfq_queue for rq. In this respect, after this hook has been invoked, rq may still be transformed into a request with no icq attached, i.e., for bfq, a request not associated with any bfq_queue. No further hook is invoked to signal this tranformation to bfq (in general, to the destination elevator for rq). This leads bfq into an inconsistent state, because bfq has no chance to correctly lower these counters back. This inconsistency may in its turn cause incorrect scheduling and hangs. It certainly causes memory leaks, by making it impossible for bfq to free the involved bfq_queue. On the bright side, no transformation can still happen for rq after rq has been inserted into bfq, or merged with another, already inserted, request. Exploiting this fact, this commit addresses the above issue by delaying the preparation of an I/O request to when the request is inserted or merged. This change also gives a performance bonus: a lock-contention point gets removed. To prepare a request, bfq needs to hold its scheduler lock. After postponing request preparation to insertion or merging, no lock needs to be grabbed any longer in the prepare_request hook, while the lock already taken to perform insertion or merging is used to preparare the request as well. Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.