On Fri, Dec 22 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:50:02PM -0500, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> > Because I'd like to use blk_get_request() in q->request_fn()
> > which can be called from interrupt context like below:
> > scsi_io_completion -> scsi_end_request -> scsi_next_command
> > -> scsi_run_queue -> blk_run_queue -> q->request_fn
>
> > Or request should not be allocated in q->request_fn() anyway?
> > Do you have any other ideas?
>
> The right long-term fix is to make sure request_fn is only ever called
> from process context. This means moving retry handling to a thread instead
> of a softirq, but this will need careful performance testing and tweaking.
It's a lot more than just retry handling. Most driver reinvoke queueing
from the completion handling, so basically most of the time request_fn
is run from either softirq (like SCSI) or interrupt context (like IDE).
--
Jens Axboe
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