From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>,
Alexandru Gagniuc <alex_gagniuc@dellteam.com>,
Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
Jan Vesely <jano.vesely@gmail.com>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
Austin Bolen <austin_bolen@dell.com>,
Shyam Iyer <Shyam_Iyer@dell.com>, Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issues with "PCI/LINK: Report degraded links via link bandwidth notification"
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:56:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120085640.53dc9652@w520.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200120023326.GA149019@google.com>
On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 20:33:26 -0600
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
> [+cc NVMe, GPU driver folks]
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:10:08PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > I think we have a problem with link bandwidth change notifications
> > (see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/pci/pcie/bw_notification.c).
> >
> > Here's a recent bug report where Jan reported "_tons_" of these
> > notifications on an nvme device:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206197
> >
> > There was similar discussion involving GPU drivers at
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190429185611.121751-2-helgaas@kernel.org
> >
> > The current solution is the CONFIG_PCIE_BW config option, which
> > disables the messages completely. That option defaults to "off" (no
> > messages), but even so, I think it's a little problematic.
> >
> > Users are not really in a position to figure out whether it's safe to
> > enable. All they can do is experiment and see whether it works with
> > their current mix of devices and drivers.
> >
> > I don't think it's currently useful for distros because it's a
> > compile-time switch, and distros cannot predict what system configs
> > will be used, so I don't think they can enable it.
> >
> > Does anybody have proposals for making it smarter about distinguishing
> > real problems from intentional power management, or maybe interfaces
> > drivers could use to tell us when we should ignore bandwidth changes?
>
> NVMe, GPU folks, do your drivers or devices change PCIe link
> speed/width for power saving or other reasons? When CONFIG_PCIE_BW=y,
> the PCI core interprets changes like that as problems that need to be
> reported.
>
> If drivers do change link speed/width, can you point me to where
> that's done? Would it be feasible to add some sort of PCI core
> interface so the driver could say "ignore" or "pay attention to"
> subsequent link changes?
>
> Or maybe there would even be a way to move the link change itself into
> the PCI core, so the core would be aware of what's going on?
One case where we previously saw sporadic link change messages was
vfio-pci owned devices. If the transitions are based on config space
manipulation then I can trap those accesses and wrap them in a PCI core
API, but I suspect that's not the exclusive (or potentially even
primary) mechanism for initiating link changes. So I think we'd
probably need a mechanism for a driver to opt-out of link notification
for their devices (presumably the fn0 device per link would opt-out the
entire link?). Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-15 22:10 Issues with "PCI/LINK: Report degraded links via link bandwidth notification" Bjorn Helgaas
2020-01-16 2:44 ` Alex G
2020-01-18 0:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-01-20 2:33 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-01-20 15:56 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2020-01-20 16:01 ` Alex G.
2020-01-21 11:10 ` Lucas Stach
2020-01-21 14:55 ` Alex G.
2020-02-03 1:56 ` Dave Airlie
2020-02-03 2:04 ` Dave Airlie
2020-02-03 2:07 ` Ben Skeggs
2020-02-03 21:16 ` Alex Deucher
2020-02-04 4:38 ` Lukas Wunner
2020-02-04 14:47 ` Alex Deucher
2020-01-30 16:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-22 16:58 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-01-28 23:39 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-01-28 23:51 ` Sinan Kaya
2021-01-29 0:07 ` Alex G.
2021-01-29 21:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-02-02 19:50 ` Alex G.
2021-02-02 20:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-02-02 20:25 ` Alex G.
2021-01-29 1:30 ` Alex Deucher
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