[PATCH WIP/RFC v2 0/6] nvme-rdma device removal fixes

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Mon Aug 29 14:35:05 PDT 2016


This series is a Work In Progress (WIP) attempting to address several
problems when shutting down a nvme-rdma host when its controllers are
attempting to reconnect to a target that is no longer reachable.

I'm still testing but I welcome review.  Specifically the last patch
which solves the problem of always being able to detect a device removal.

To tickle these bugs:

1) attach over iw_cxgb4 to 10 devices on a target.
2) 'ifconfig down' the target's interface
3) wait for keep-alive to fire and begin reconnecting (~15-20 seconds)
4) do one of these on the host:
   - rmmod iw_cxgb4
   - reboot
   - reboot -f

Changes since v1:

- the big change was patch 6 rewrite - use client_ib API to handle
device removal instead of rdma_cm device removal events.

- tweaked patch 5 to avoid bisect issues

- small code rework on patch 3 based on Christoph's suggestion

- clear_bit() -> !test_and_clear_bit() in patch 4 (Christoph's comment)

- add reviewed-by tags.

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Sagi Grimberg (1):
  nvme-rdma: add DELETING queue flag

Steve Wise (5):
  iw_cxgb4: call dev_put() on l2t allocation failure
  iw_cxgb4: block module unload until all ep resources are released
  nvme_rdma: keep a ref on the ctrl during delete/flush
  nvme-rdma: destroy nvme queue rdma resources on connect failure
  nvme-rdma: use ib_client API to detect device removal

 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c       |   6 +-
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c   |   5 ++
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.h |   1 +
 drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c               | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 4 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

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