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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index 02dd4c836936..aa32e56cb385 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -1839,15 +1839,28 @@ static void bfq_request_merged(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
}
}
+/*
+ * This function is called to notify the scheduler that the requests
+ * rq and 'next' have been merged, with 'next' going away. BFQ
+ * exploits this hook to address the following issue: if 'next' has a
+ * fifo_time lower that rq, then the fifo_time of rq must be set to
+ * the value of 'next', to not forget the greater age of 'next'.
+ * Moreover 'next' may be in a bfq_queue, in this case it must be
+ * removed.
+ *
+ * NOTE: in this function we assume that rq is in a bfq_queue, basing
+ * on that rq is picked from the hash table q->elevator->hash, which,
+ * in its turn, is filled only with I/O requests present in
+ * bfq_queues, while BFQ is in use for the request queue q. In fact,
+ * the function that fills this hash table (elv_rqhash_add) is called
+ * only by bfq_insert_request.
+ */
static void bfq_requests_merged(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
struct request *next)
{
struct bfq_queue *bfqq = bfq_init_rq(rq),
*next_bfqq = bfq_init_rq(next);
- if (!RB_EMPTY_NODE(&rq->rb_node))
- goto end;
-
/*
* If next and rq belong to the same bfq_queue and next is older
* than rq, then reposition rq in the fifo (by substituting next
@@ -1868,10 +1881,11 @@ static void bfq_requests_merged(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
if (bfqq->next_rq == next)
bfqq->next_rq = rq;
- bfq_remove_request(q, next);
- bfqg_stats_update_io_remove(bfqq_group(bfqq), next->cmd_flags);
+ if (!RB_EMPTY_NODE(&next->rb_node)) {
+ bfq_remove_request(q, next);
+ bfqg_stats_update_io_remove(bfqq_group(bfqq), next->cmd_flags);
+ }
-end:
bfqg_stats_update_io_merged(bfqq_group(bfqq), next->cmd_flags);
}