[LSF/MM/BPF BOF] Userspace command abouts

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 2/27/23 17:33, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:54:39PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>>>> I do think that we should work on CDL for NVMe as it will solve some of
>>>> the timeout related problems effectively than using aborts or any other
>>>> mechanism.
>>>
>>> That proposal exists in NVMe TWG, but doesn't appear to have recent 
>>> activity.
>>> The last I heard, one point of contention was where the duration 
>>> limit property
>>> exists: within the command, or the queue. From my perspective, if 
>>> it's not at
>>> the queue level, the limit becomes meaningless, but hey, it's not up 
>>> to me.
>>
>> Limit attached to the command makes things more flexible and easier 
>> for the
>> host, so personally, I prefer that. But this has an impact on the 
>> controller:
>> the device needs to pull in *all* commands to be able to know the 
>> limits and do
>> scheduling/aborts appropriately. That is not something that the device 
>> designers
>> like, for obvious reasons (device internal resources...).
>>
>> On the other hand, limits attached to queues could lead to either a 
>> serious
>> increase in the number of queues (PCI space & number of IRQ vectors 
>> limits), or,
>> loss of performance as a particular queue with the desired limit would be
>> accessed from multiple CPUs on the host (lock contention). Tricky 
>> problem I
>> think with lots of compromises.
> 
> I'm not up to speed on how CDL is defined, but I'm unclear how CDL at
> the queue level would cause the host to open more queues?
> 
> Another question, does CDL have any relationship with NVMe "Time Limited
> Error Recovery"? where the host can set a feature for timeout and
> indicate if the controller should respect it per command?
> 
> While this is not a full-blown every queue/command has its own timeout,
> it could address the original use-case given by Hannes. And it's already
> there.
I guess that is the NVMe version of CDLs; can you give me a reference 
for it?

Cheers,

Hannes
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