[PATCH 0/4] nvme-blkmq fixes

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/23/2014 10:49 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/22/2014 06:34 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Keith Busch wrote:
>>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> Should be enough to just check for ->rq_pool being initialized or not
>>>> - if it is, we could have waiters and we know the waitqueues have
>>>> been setup, etc.
>>>>
>>>> V2 attached.
>>>
>>> Yep, that fixes the bug.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I follow your suggestion for forcing bt_get() to abandon
>>> allocating a request tag when the queue is dying. If hctx_may_queue()
>>> fails, it returns a generic error and bt_get() reschedules itself.
>>> Should
>>> a different error than -1 be returned if the queue is dying?
>>
>> We're making good incremental improvements, but finding oddities the
>> more I test this. This one's a doozy.
>>
>> Requeued IO's are automatically dispatched, and I don't see an
>> immediately
>> available way stop them. It causes a bug because the queue doorbells are
>> unmapped during reset, so you can't touch them when the queue should be
>> quiesced. I could fix that by having the driver not kick the requeue_list
>> when it knows a reset is in progress, but there's no immediate way
>> to drain the list if the reset fails and the device requires removal,
>> and blk_cleanup_queue() will be stuck.
>>
>> Is there something available to call that I'm missing or do I need to
>> add more removal handling?
>
> So that's actually a case where having the queues auto-started on
> requeue run is harmful, since we should be able to handle this situation
> by stopping queues, requeueing, and then having a helper to eventually
> abort pending requeued work, if we have to. But if you simply requeue
> them and defer kicking the requeue list it might work. At that point
> you'd either kick the requeues (and hence start processing them) if
> things went well on the reset, or we could have some
> blk_mq_abort_requeues() helper that'd kill them with -EIO instead. Would
> that work for you?

Something like this.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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