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author | Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> | 2011-10-17 12:57:23 +0200 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2011-10-24 16:24:31 +0200 |
commit | e67b77c791ca2778198c9e7088f3266ed2da7a55 (patch) | |
tree | 9c65ce6b5679d1f45fa1e4720430ea17b11fa2aa /README | |
parent | 834f9f61a525d2f6d3d0c93894e26326c8d3ceed (diff) | |
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blk-flush: move the queue kick into
A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot
a kernel with commit 4853abaae7e4a2af938115ce9071ef8684fb7af4
(block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring
flush flags) applied. It turns out that an empty flush request
can be sent into blk_insert_flush. When the BUG_ON was fixed
to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall. The
reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue.
In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to
kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did
not require a flush. A better solution is to push the queue
kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request.
This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes
the issue reported.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html
Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Stable note: 3.1
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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