[PATCH 1/2] nvme: remove namespaces in parallel

Qiliang Yuan odys.yuan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 22:14:36 PST 2026


nvme_remove_namespaces() removes the namespaces of a controller one
after another. Each removal waits for RCU grace periods in
del_gendisk() for the namespace and for its multipath head, about
20 ms in all.

Deleting a controller, such as disconnecting from a fabrics target,
thus takes time proportional to its namespace count, over a second for
64 namespaces. Scanning had the same problem until commit 4e893ca81170
("nvme_core: scan namespaces asynchronously") made it add namespaces
in parallel.

Remove the namespaces through an async domain the same way, and wait
for all of them before returning.

Disconnect time from a target on the same host, over tcp to 127.0.0.1
and over nvme-loop, with 4 I/O queues, median of 3 runs on each of two
boots per kernel:

  namespaces  transport  before              after
           8  tcp         170 /  171 ms        85 /   91 ms
          32  tcp         628 /  628 ms       294 /  293 ms
          64  tcp        1201 / 1308 ms       533 /  550 ms
          64  loop       1988 / 1913 ms      1283 / 1200 ms

Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <odys.yuan at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index a7a4d09644c13..18948c2ba218d 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -4716,6 +4716,11 @@ static void nvme_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)
 #endif
 }
 
+static void nvme_ns_remove_async(void *data, async_cookie_t cookie)
+{
+	nvme_ns_remove(data);
+}
+
 /*
  * This function iterates the namespace list unlocked to allow recovery from
  * controller failure. It is up to the caller to ensure the namespace list is
@@ -4725,6 +4730,7 @@ void nvme_remove_namespaces(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 {
 	struct nvme_ns *ns, *next;
 	LIST_HEAD(ns_list);
+	ASYNC_DOMAIN(domain);
 
 	/*
 	 * make sure to requeue I/O to all namespaces as these
@@ -4759,8 +4765,13 @@ void nvme_remove_namespaces(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 	mutex_unlock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
 	synchronize_srcu(&ctrl->srcu);
 
+	/*
+	 * Remove the namespaces in parallel, as each removal waits for several
+	 * RCU grace periods.
+	 */
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(ns, next, &ns_list, list)
-		nvme_ns_remove(ns);
+		async_schedule_domain(nvme_ns_remove_async, ns, &domain);
+	async_synchronize_full_domain(&domain);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_remove_namespaces);
 

-- 
2.43.0




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