From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 06/12] blk-mq: prepare for draining IO when hctx's all CPUs are offline
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 08:35:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3994d91e-9f17-8c8f-eb6b-6ad22db44cf9@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200513034803.1844579-7-ming.lei@redhat.com>
On 5/13/20 5:47 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> Most of blk-mq drivers depend on managed IRQ's auto-affinity to setup
> up queue mapping. Thomas mentioned the following point[1]:
>
> "
> That was the constraint of managed interrupts from the very beginning:
>
> The driver/subsystem has to quiesce the interrupt line and the associated
> queue _before_ it gets shutdown in CPU unplug and not fiddle with it
> until it's restarted by the core when the CPU is plugged in again.
> "
>
> However, current blk-mq implementation doesn't quiesce hw queue before
> the last CPU in the hctx is shutdown. Even worse, CPUHP_BLK_MQ_DEAD is
> one cpuhp state handled after the CPU is down, so there isn't any chance
> to quiesce hctx for blk-mq wrt. CPU hotplug.
>
> Add new cpuhp state of CPUHP_AP_BLK_MQ_ONLINE for blk-mq to stop queues
> and wait for completion of in-flight requests.
>
> We will stop hw queue and wait for completion of in-flight requests
> when one hctx is becoming dead in the following patch. This way may
> cause dead-lock for some stacking blk-mq drivers, such as dm-rq and
> loop.
>
> Add blk-mq flag of BLK_MQ_F_NO_MANAGED_IRQ and mark it for dm-rq and
> loop, so we needn't to wait for completion of in-flight requests from
> dm-rq & loop, then the potential dead-lock can be avoided.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904051331270.1802@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
>
> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
> ---
> block/blk-mq-debugfs.c | 1 +
> block/blk-mq.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +-
> drivers/md/dm-rq.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/blk-mq.h | 4 ++++
> include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 1 +
> 6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-13 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 3:47 [PATCH V11 00/12] blk-mq: improvement CPU hotplug Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 01/12] block: clone nr_integrity_segments and write_hint in blk_rq_prep_clone Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 02/12] block: add helper for copying request Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 03/12] blk-mq: mark blk_mq_get_driver_tag as static Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 04/12] blk-mq: assign rq->tag in blk_mq_get_driver_tag Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 05/12] blk-mq: add blk_mq_all_tag_iter Ming Lei
2020-05-13 11:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 06/12] blk-mq: prepare for draining IO when hctx's all CPUs are offline Ming Lei
2020-05-13 6:35 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2020-05-13 11:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-14 0:33 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 07/12] blk-mq: stop to handle IO and drain IO before hctx becomes inactive Ming Lei
2020-05-13 11:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-14 0:36 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-14 1:12 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-14 3:10 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH V11 08/12] block: add blk_end_flush_machinery Ming Lei
2020-05-13 12:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 3:48 ` [PATCH V11 09/12] blk-mq: add blk_mq_hctx_handle_dead_cpu for handling cpu dead Ming Lei
2020-05-13 12:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 3:48 ` [PATCH V11 10/12] block: add request allocation flag of BLK_MQ_REQ_FORCE Ming Lei
2020-05-13 10:34 ` [PATCH V12 " Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:48 ` [PATCH V11 11/12] blk-mq: re-submit IO in case that hctx is inactive Ming Lei
2020-05-13 9:21 ` John Garry
2020-05-13 12:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 15:03 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-14 0:45 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-14 0:40 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-13 3:48 ` [PATCH V11 12/12] block: deactivate hctx when the hctx is actually inactive Ming Lei
2020-05-13 7:34 ` [PATCH V11 00/12] blk-mq: improvement CPU hotplug John Garry
2020-05-13 10:37 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-13 11:33 ` John Garry
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