scsi_run_queue(9)

💅 scsi_run_queue — like, the Kernel API Manual page you actually want to read ✨

okay bestie, so this is scsi_run_queue(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's giving "tiny function, huge responsibility" energy 👑 it's a short one, so let's just get into it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void scsi_run_queue (struct request_queue *q );

that's it. that's the whole signature. void return, one pointer in, zero drama 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• q — the queue of the last request, i.e. the one that just wrapped up. it's a struct request_queue *, and it's literally the vibe check for where we go next 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the plot is: the previous command was completely finished 💀 like, fully done, not mid, not pending, done done. and now scsi_run_queue is the main character whose whole job is — if possible — to start a new one 🎀

that's literally the whole thing. previous request finished → kick off the next one if we can 🔥 no cap, it's a little function with a big "what happens next" job.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c — that's where this lives, in case you want to go snoop 🙈

and like, an absolutely iconic cast of friends, all in section 9, all alphabetically-ish adjacent in the source — enjoy the full list because we do not skip anybody here 😭

__scsi_queue_insert(9), scsi_queue_insert(9), scsi_failures_reset_retries(9), scsi_check_passthrough(9), scsi_execute_cmd(9), scsi_result_to_blk_status(9), scsi_rq_err_bytes(9), scsi_io_completion(9), scsi_alloc_sgtables(9), scsi_initialize_rq(9), scsi_alloc_request(9), scsi_dispatch_cmd(9), scsi_get_internal_cmd(9), scsi_put_internal_cmd(9), scsi_device_from_queue(9), scsi_block_requests(9), scsi_unblock_requests(9), scsi_mode_select(9), scsi_mode_sense(9), scsi_test_unit_ready(9), scsi_device_set_state(9), scsi_evt_emit(9), scsi_evt_thread(9), sdev_evt_send(9), sdev_evt_alloc(9), sdev_evt_send_simple(9), scsi_device_quiesce(9), scsi_device_resume(9), scsi_internal_device_block_nowait(9), scsi_device_block(9), scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(9), scsi_internal_device_unblock(9), scsi_block_targets(9), scsi_host_block(9), scsi_kmap_atomic_sg(9), scsi_kunmap_atomic_sg(9), scsi_vpd_lun_id(9), scsi_vpd_lun_serial(9), scsi_vpd_tpg_id(9), scsi_build_sense(9) 🦋🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie — you ate that 💅 this one ships from ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, and it goes out to the Kernel API Manual crowd ⭐ mwah, love u, go read scsi_lib.c 🫶💖