Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/blkfront: restart request queue when there is enough persistent_gnts_c

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El 06/01/15 a les 14.19, Bob Liu ha escrit:
> When there is no enough free grants, gnttab_alloc_grant_references()
> will fail and block request queue will stop.
> If the system is always lack of grants, blkif_restart_queue_callback() can't 
> be
> scheduled and block request queue can't be restart(block I/O hang).
> 
> But when there are former requests complete, some grants may free to
> persistent_gnts_c, we can give the request queue another chance to restart and
> avoid block hang.
> 
> Reported-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |   11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> index 2236c6f..dd30f99 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> @@ -1125,6 +1125,17 @@ static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s, 
> struct blkfront_info *info,
>                       }
>               }
>       }
> +
> +     /*
> +      * Request queue would be stopped if failed to alloc enough grants and
> +      * won't be restarted until gnttab_free_count >= info->callback->count.
> +      *
> +      * But there is another case, once we have enough persistent grants we
> +      * can try to restart the request queue instead of continue to wait for
> +      * 'gnttab_free_count'.
> +      */
> +     if (info->persistent_gnts_c >= info->callback.count)
> +             schedule_work(&info->work);

I guess I'm missing something here, but blkif_completion is called by
blkif_interrupt, which in turn calls kick_pending_request_queues when
finished, which IMHO should be enough to restart the processing of requests.

Roger.

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