From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Chao Leng <lengchao@huawei.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, axboe@fb.com, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-fabrics: fix crash for no IO queues
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:25:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210316212559.GA4161557@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63ed162c-77a7-105f-5f29-47fcd32f57cd@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:57:16PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> On 3/15/2021 10:08 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > > A crash happens when set
> > > > > > > > feature(NVME_FEAT_NUM_QUEUES) timeout in nvme
> > > > > > > > over rdma(roce) reconnection, the reason is use
> > > > > > > > the queue which is not
> > > > > > > > alloced.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > If queue is not live, should not allow queue request.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Can you describe exactly the scenario here? What is the state
> > > > > > > here? LIVE? or DELETING?
> > > > > > If seting feature(NVME_FEAT_NUM_QUEUES) failed due to time out or
> > > > > > the target return 0 io queues, nvme_set_queue_count will return 0,
> > > > > > and then reconnection will continue and success. The
> > > > > > state of controller
> > > > > > is LIVE. The request will continue to deliver by call ->queue_rq(),
> > > > > > and then crash happens.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thinking about this again, we should absolutely fail the reconnection
> > > > > when we are unable to set any I/O queues, it is just wrong to
> > > > > keep this controller alive...
> > > > Keith think keeping the controller alive for diagnose is better.
> > > > This is the patch which failed the connection.
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/20210223072602.3196-1-lengchao@huawei.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Now we have 2 choice:
> > > > 1.failed the connection when unable to set any I/O queues.
> > > > 2.do not allow queue request when queue is not live.
> > >
> > > Okay, so there are different views on how to handles this. I
> > > personally find
> > > in-band administration for a misbehaving device is a good thing to
> > > have, but I
> > > won't 'nak' if the consensus from the people using this is for the
> > > other way.
> >
> > While I understand that this can be useful, I've seen it do more harm
> > than good. It is really puzzling to people when the controller state
> > reflected is live (and even optimized) and no I/O is making progress for
> > unknown reason. And logs are rarely accessed in these cases.
> >
> > I am also opting for failing it and rescheduling a reconnect.
>
> Agree with Sagi. We also hit this issue a long time ago and I made the same
> change (commit 834d3710a093a) that Sagi is suggesting: if the prior
> controller instance had io queues, but the new/reconnected controller fails
> to create io queues, then the controller create is failed and a reconnect is
> scheduled.
Okay, fair enough.
One more question: if the controller is in such a bad way that it will
never create IO queues without additional intervention, will this
behavior have the driver schedule reconnect indefinitely?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-16 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-04 0:55 [PATCH] nvme-fabrics: fix crash for no IO queues Chao Leng
2021-03-05 20:58 ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-03-08 1:30 ` Chao Leng
2021-03-15 17:08 ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-03-16 1:23 ` Chao Leng
2021-03-16 2:02 ` Keith Busch
2021-03-16 5:08 ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-03-16 20:57 ` James Smart
2021-03-16 21:25 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2021-03-16 23:52 ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-03-17 0:19 ` James Smart
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2021-03-03 2:53 Chao Leng
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