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Flushes bypass the I/O scheduler and get added to hctx->dispatch in blk_mq_sched_bypass_insert. This can happen while a kworker is running hctx->run_work work item and is past the point in blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests where hctx->dispatch is checked. The blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched call is not guaranteed to end in bounded time, because the I/O scheduler can feed an arbitrary number of commands. Since we have only one hctx->run_work, the commands waiting in hctx->dispatch will wait an arbitrary length of time for run_work to be rerun. A similar phenomenon exists with dispatches from the software queue. The solution is to poll hctx->dispatch in blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched and blk_mq_do_dispatch_ctx and return from the run_work handler and let it rerun. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> 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.
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.