There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the
next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be
invoked with bad or NULL data.
To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer.
Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be
run without the lock held. This isn't easily fixable, without also
changing the mempool API. So split the initialization into two parts,
and alloc-init operation and an attach operation. Then we can
preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach
inside the lock after we detach the old one.
This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching
with a very busy io load.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On rmmod path, cfq/as waits to make sure all io-contexts was
freed. However, it's using complete(), not wait_for_completion().
I think barrier() is not enough in here. To avoid the following case,
this patch replaces barrier() with smb_wmb().
cpu0 visibility cpu1
[ioc_gnone=NULL,ioc_count=1]
ioc_gnone = &all_gone NULL,ioc_count=1
atomic_read(&ioc_count) NULL,ioc_count=1
wait_for_completion() NULL,ioc_count=0 atomic_sub_and_test()
NULL,ioc_count=0 if ( && ioc_gone)
[ioc_gone==NULL,
so doesn't call complete()]
&all_gone,ioc_count=0
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Unlike other ioscheds, as-iosched handles alias by chaing them using
rq->queuelist. As aliased requests are very rare in the first place,
this complicates merge/dispatch handling without meaningful
performance improvement. This patch updates as-iosched to dump
aliased requests into dispatch queue as other ioscheds do.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Kill the arq->state poison statement in as_add_request(), it can trigger
for perfectly valid code that just reuses a request after io completion
instead of freeing it and allocating a new one. We probably should
introduce a blk_init_request() to start from scratch, but for now just
kill it as we will be removing the as specific poisoning soon.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some leftover comments referring to drivers/block that are now block/.
They don't add any information we don't already have, so kill them.
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Jens Axboe