[PATCH 0/4] nvme-blkmq fixes

[Jens Axboe]

On 01/05/2015 08:17 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 12/30/2014 07:31 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
>>> Abandon the whole series...  Too many corner cases where this falls
>>> to pieces. I'm running high queue-depth IO with random error injection
>>> that causes requests to get on lists from ctx->rq_list, hctx->dispatch,
>>> and q->requeue_list. No matter what I do from the driver, there is
>>> always a case in either reset or removal where a requests get lost and
>>> blk_cleanup_queue never completes.
>>
>> Back to the drawing board, I'll drop the series. Still off from work
>> here, I'll take a look when I get back soon. I'm surprised it's this
>> difficult, we already went through most of this design/test hash out
>> with scsi-mq.
>>
>> I'll drop this one:
>>
>> NVMe: Freeze queues on shutdown
>>
>> but keep this one:
>>
>> NVMe: Fix double free irq
>>
>> Agree?
> 
> Yep, that sounds good. Sorry I rushed out that last email without much
> explanation.
> 
> We need the driver to temporarily block tasks allocating new requests but
> let existing requests requeue. Freeze looked good, but unfreeze expects
> the usage count to have been 0, which it's not guaranteed with when we
> let failed requests requeue.

OK, I think that is a concern we can fix. And yes, that was the intended
use case for it originally.

> The only reason I need the freeze/unfreeze exports is for the IOCTL path
> that submits commands outside the block layer. If I can change all those
> usages to be "blk_execute_rq" or something like that, we don't need the
> new exports, and can block requests at a different level, but that brings
> me to the next issue.

That would be one way of doing it, as it effectively gets rid of the
ioctl being an OOB mechanism. But we should be able to make it work
otherwise.

> We also need the driver to temporarily prevent the block layer from
> submitting requests to the driver's hw queues. 'blk_mq_stop_hw_queues'
> looked right, but anyone can restart them at the wrong time by kicking
> the requeue list.

The driver is the only one that should kick the requeue action into
gear, which would start those queues up again. So that should be under
your control already.

-- 
Jens Axboe