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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Anton Eidelman <anton.eidelman@gmail.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, sagi@grimberg.me, axboe@fb.com,
	Anton Eidelman <anton@lightbitslabs.com>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] nvme/multipath: fix stale ana state for namespaces just added by scan work
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:08:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210913160831.GC3283786@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210913160310.GC6442@lst.de>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 09:30:23AM -0600, Anton Eidelman wrote:
> > Scan work initially adds new namespaces to ctrl->namespaces TAIL.
> > They make the list unordered temporarily until nvme_scan_work()
> > finally sorts the list.
> > 
> > Solution:
> > In order to preserve the way ctrl->namespaces is updated and sorted,
> > make nvme_update_ana_state() deal with the case where ctrl->namespaces
> > is not fully sorted and has new namespaces appended with potentially
> > lower nsids.
> > nvme_update_ana_state() keeps track of the nsid seen in the list,
> > detects the unsorted case (rare), and restarts scanning of desc->nsids.
> 
> Can we dust off the patch from Chaitanya to switch to an always sorted
> xarray instead of papering over this delayed sort?

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-13 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-12 18:54 [PATCH RESEND 0/3] nvme/mpath: fix missed namespaces in ana state update Anton Eidelman
2021-09-12 18:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] nvme/multipath: fix failure to update ns ana state Anton Eidelman
2021-09-12 18:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] nvme/multipath: cosmetic: keep ns nsid locally Anton Eidelman
2021-09-12 18:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme/multipath: fix stale ana state for namespaces just added by scan work Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 15:30   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] nvme/mpath: fix missed namespaces in ana state update Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 15:30     ` [PATCH v2 1/3] nvme/multipath: fix failure to update ns ana state Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 16:01       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 19:29       ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-09-14  8:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 15:30     ` [PATCH v2 2/3] nvme/multipath: cosmetic: keep ns nsid locally Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 16:02       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 20:19         ` Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 20:57           ` Keith Busch
2021-09-14  5:44             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 15:30     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] nvme/multipath: fix stale ana state for namespaces just added by scan work Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 16:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 16:08         ` Keith Busch [this message]
2021-09-14  6:24           ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-09-14  6:30             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-14  6:40               ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-14  7:09               ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-09-14  7:32                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-14 16:45                   ` Anton Eidelman
2021-09-15  9:32                     ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-09-14 14:24               ` Keith Busch
2021-09-13 16:07       ` Keith Busch
2021-09-13 16:11         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 16:24           ` Keith Busch
2021-09-13 16:46           ` Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 15:32     ` [PATCH v2 0/3] nvme/mpath: fix missed namespaces in ana state update Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-13 15:42     ` [PATCH v2 0/3] nvme/mpath: fix missed namespaces in ana state update FIXED Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 21:46       ` [PATCH v3 0/3] nvme/mpath: fix missed namespaces in ana state update Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 21:46         ` [PATCH v3 1/3] nvme/multipath: fix failure to update ns ana state Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 21:46         ` [PATCH v3 2/3] nvme/multipath: cosmetic: keep ns nsid locally Anton Eidelman
2021-09-13 21:46         ` [PATCH v3 3/3] nvme/multipath: fix stale ana state for namespaces just added by scan work Anton Eidelman

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