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-rw-r--r--block/io_uring.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/io_uring.c b/block/io_uring.c
index 00a3ee9..dfa475c 100644
--- a/block/io_uring.c
+++ b/block/io_uring.c
@@ -165,7 +165,21 @@ static void luring_process_completions(LuringState *s)
total_bytes = ret + luringcb->total_read;
if (ret < 0) {
- if (ret == -EINTR) {
+ /*
+ * Only writev/readv/fsync requests on regular files or host block
+ * devices are submitted. Therefore -EAGAIN is not expected but it's
+ * known to happen sometimes with Linux SCSI. Submit again and hope
+ * the request completes successfully.
+ *
+ * For more information, see:
+ * https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20210727165811.284510-3-axboe@kernel.dk/T/#u
+ *
+ * If the code is changed to submit other types of requests in the
+ * future, then this workaround may need to be extended to deal with
+ * genuine -EAGAIN results that should not be resubmitted
+ * immediately.
+ */
+ if (ret == -EINTR || ret == -EAGAIN) {
luring_resubmit(s, luringcb);
continue;
}