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From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:25:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACVXFVNGCfFrh9Q=Cmj0fWCNQiqPDwHKzrSrkZJxNpVtuyEwgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1a561c1-9594-cc25-dcab-bad5c342264f@huawei.com>

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:10 PM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/2019 12:55, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 4:54 PM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/10/2019 12:21, John Garry wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> As discussed before, tags of hisilicon V3 is HBA wide. If you switch
> >>>> to real hw queue, each hw queue has to own its independent tags.
> >>>> However, that isn't supported by V3 hardware.
> >>>
> >>> I am generating the tag internally in the driver now, so that hostwide
> >>> tags issue should not be an issue.
> >>>
> >>> And, to be clear, I am not paying too much attention to performance, but
> >>> rather just hotplugging while running IO.
> >>>
> >>> An update on testing:
> >>> I did some scripted overnight testing. The script essentially loops like
> >>> this:
> >>> - online all CPUS
> >>> - run fio binded on a limited bunch of CPUs to cover a hctx mask for 1
> >>> minute
> >>> - offline those CPUs
> >>> - wait 1 minute (> SCSI or NVMe timeout)
> >>> - and repeat
> >>>
> >>> SCSI is actually quite stable, but NVMe isn't. For NVMe I am finding
> >>> some fio processes never dying with IOPS @ 0. I don't see any NVMe
> >>> timeout reported. Did you do any NVMe testing of this sort?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yeah, so for NVMe, I see some sort of regression, like this:
> >> Jobs: 1 (f=1): [_R] [0.0% done] [0KB/0KB/0KB /s] [0/0/0 iops] [eta
> >> 1158037877d:17h:18m:22s]
> >
> > I can reproduce this issue, and looks there are requests in ->dispatch.
>
> OK, that may match with what I see:
> - the problem occuring coincides with this callpath with
> BLK_MQ_S_INTERNAL_STOPPED set:

Good catch, these requests should have been re-submitted in
blk_mq_hctx_notify_dead() too.

Will do it in V4.

Thanks,
Ming Lei

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-14  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-08  4:18 [PATCH V3 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug Ming Lei
2019-10-08  4:18 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] blk-mq: add new state of BLK_MQ_S_INTERNAL_STOPPED Ming Lei
2019-10-08  4:18 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] blk-mq: prepare for draining IO when hctx's all CPUs are offline Ming Lei
2019-10-08  4:18 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] blk-mq: stop to handle IO and drain IO before hctx becomes dead Ming Lei
2019-10-08 17:03   ` John Garry
2019-10-08  4:18 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] blk-mq: re-submit IO in case that hctx is dead Ming Lei
2019-10-08  4:18 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] blk-mq: handle requests dispatched from IO scheduler " Ming Lei
2019-10-08  9:06 ` [PATCH V3 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug John Garry
2019-10-08 17:15   ` John Garry
2019-10-09  8:39     ` Ming Lei
2019-10-09  8:49       ` John Garry
2019-10-10 10:30         ` Ming Lei
2019-10-10 11:21           ` John Garry
2019-10-11  8:51             ` John Garry
2019-10-11 11:55               ` Ming Lei
2019-10-11 14:10                 ` John Garry
2019-10-14  1:25                   ` Ming Lei [this message]
2019-10-14  8:29                     ` John Garry

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