Re: [PATCH] ublk: don't quiesce in ublk_ch_release

[Ming Lei]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 03:44:43PM -0600, Uday Shankar wrote:
> ublk_ch_release currently quiesces the device's request_queue while
> setting force_abort/fail_io.  This avoids data races by preventing
> concurrent reads from the I/O path, but is not strictly needed - at this
> point, canceling is already set and guaranteed to be observed by any
> concurrently executing I/Os, so they will be handled properly even if
> the changes to force_abort/fail_io propagate to the I/O path later.
> Remove the quiesce/unquiesce calls from ublk_ch_release. This makes the
> writes to force_abort/fail_io concurrent with the reads in the I/O path,
> so make the accesses atomic.
> 
> Before this change, the call to blk_mq_quiesce_queue was responsible for
> most (90%) of the runtime of ublk_ch_release. With that call eliminated,
> ublk_ch_release runs much faster. Here is a comparison of the total time
> spent in calls to ublk_ch_release when a server handling 128 devices
> exits, before and after this change:
> 
> before: 1.11s
> after: 0.09s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As commented, ->canceling is already set and observed in ublk io fast path,
this patch looks fine:

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
Ming