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Commit 28d65729 authored by Salman Qazi's avatar Salman Qazi Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: Limit number of items taken from the I/O scheduler in one go



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: default avatarSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 895d4775
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