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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:23:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mq-deadline: make it clear that __dd_dispatch_request() works
Git-commit: ca11f209a4c88743fb4b652fd812470e6fecc598
Patch-mainline: v4.16-rc1
References: bsc#1104967,FATE#325924
 on all hw queues

Don't pass in the hardware queue to __dd_dispatch_request(), since it
leads the reader to believe that we are returning a request for that
specific hardware queue. That's not how mq-deadline works, the state
for determining which request to serve next is shared across all
hardware queues for a device.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
---
 block/mq-deadline.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/mq-deadline.c b/block/mq-deadline.c
index d56972e8ebda..c56f211c8440 100644
--- a/block/mq-deadline.c
+++ b/block/mq-deadline.c
@@ -267,9 +267,8 @@ deadline_next_request(struct deadline_data *dd, int data_dir)
  * deadline_dispatch_requests selects the best request according to
  * read/write expire, fifo_batch, etc
  */
-static struct request *__dd_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
+static struct request *__dd_dispatch_request(struct deadline_data *dd)
 {
-	struct deadline_data *dd = hctx->queue->elevator->elevator_data;
 	struct request *rq, *next_rq;
 	bool reads, writes;
 	int data_dir;
@@ -372,13 +371,19 @@ static struct request *__dd_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 	return rq;
 }
 
+/*
+ * One confusing aspect here is that we get called for a specific
+ * hardware queue, but we return a request that may not be for a
+ * different hardware queue. This is because mq-deadline has shared
+ * state for all hardware queues, in terms of sorting, FIFOs, etc.
+ */
 static struct request *dd_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 {
 	struct deadline_data *dd = hctx->queue->elevator->elevator_data;
 	struct request *rq;
 
 	spin_lock(&dd->lock);
-	rq = __dd_dispatch_request(hctx);
+	rq = __dd_dispatch_request(dd);
 	spin_unlock(&dd->lock);
 
 	return rq;
-- 
2.16.4