[Devel] Re: [PATCH 05/24] io-controller: Modify cfq to make use of flat elevator fair queuing

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Thu Jul 30 11:30:14 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 05:42:46PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > @@ -1616,11 +1234,12 @@ static void changed_ioprio(struct io_context *ioc, struct cfq_io_context *cic)
> >  	struct cfq_data *cfqd = cic->key;
> >  	struct cfq_queue *cfqq;
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> > +	struct request_queue *q = cfqd->queue;
> 
> cfqd may be NULL here. We'd better test it before using it.
> 

Thanks Jerome. 

Actually I will drop this chage altogether. This is not required. I don't
know why did I change original code to introduce another local variable. 

Thanks
Vivek

> >  
> >  	if (unlikely(!cfqd))
> >  		return;
> >  
> > -	spin_lock_irqsave(cfqd->queue->queue_lock, flags);
> > +	spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
> >  
> >  	cfqq = cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC];
> >  	if (cfqq) {
> > @@ -1637,7 +1256,7 @@ static void changed_ioprio(struct io_context *ioc, struct cfq_io_context *cic)
> >  	if (cfqq)
> >  		cfq_mark_cfqq_prio_changed(cfqq);
> >  
> > -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(cfqd->queue->queue_lock, flags);
> > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static void cfq_ioc_set_ioprio(struct io_context *ioc)
> 
> 
> --- block/cfq-iosched.c.orig	2009-07-29 10:22:08.000000000 +0200
> +++ block/cfq-iosched.c	2009-07-30 17:25:05.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1271,11 +1271,12 @@ static void changed_ioprio(struct io_con
>  	struct cfq_data *cfqd = cic->key;
>  	struct cfq_queue *cfqq;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> -	struct request_queue *q = cfqd->queue;
> +	struct request_queue *q;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!cfqd))
>  		return;
>  
> +	q = cfqd->queue;
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
>  
>  	cfqq = cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC];
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