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Consider two bfq_queues, say Q1 and Q2, with Q2 empty. If a request of Q1 gets completed shortly before a new request arrives for Q2, then BFQ flags Q1 as a candidate waker for Q2. Yet, the arrival of this new request may have a different cause, in the following case. If also Q2 has requests in flight while waiting for the arrival of a new request, then the completion of its own requests may be the actual cause of the awakening of the process that sends I/O to Q2. So Q1 may be flagged wrongly as a candidate waker. This commit avoids this deceptive flagging, by disabling candidate-waker flagging for Q2, if Q2 has in-flight I/O. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-7-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.