nvme_clear_request() has a check for flag REQ_DONTPREP and it is called
from nvme_init_request() and nvme_setuo_cmd().
The function nvme_init_request() is called from nvme_alloc_request()
and nvme_alloc_request_qid(). From these two callers new request is
allocated everytime. For newly allocated request RQF_DONTPREP is never
set. Since after getting a tag, block layer sets the req->rq_flags == 0
and never sets the REQ_DONTPREP when returning the request :-
The block layer does set req->rq_flags but REQ_DONTPREP is not one of
them and that is set by the driver.
That means we can unconditinally set the REQ_DONTPREP value to the
rq->rq_flags when nvme_init_request()->nvme_clear_request() is called
from above two callers.
Move the check for REQ_DONTPREP from nvme_clear_nvme_request() into
nvme_setup_cmd().
This is needed since nvme_alloc_request() now gets called from fast
path when NVMeOF target isĀ configured with passthru backend to avoid
unnecessary checks in the fast path.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>