[PATCH] nvme-fabrics: use reserved tag for reg read/write command
Chaitanya Kulkarni
chaitanyak at nvidia.com
Tue Apr 30 10:42:16 PDT 2024
On 4/29/24 19:17, brookxu.cn wrote:
> From: Chunguang Xu <chunguang.xu at shopee.com>
>
> In some scenarios, if too many commands are issued by nvme command in
> the same time by user tasks, this may exhaust all tags of admin_q. If
> a reset (nvme reset or IO timeout) occurs before these commands finish,
> reconnect routine may fail to update nvme regs due to insufficient tags,
> which will cause kernel hang forever. In order to workaround this issue,
> maybe we can let reg_read32()/reg_read64()/reg_write32() use reserved
> tags. This maybe safe for nvmf:
>
> 1. For the disable ctrl path, we will not issue connect command
> 2. For the enable ctrl / fw activate path, since connect and reg_xx()
> are called serially.
>
> So the reserved tags may still be enough while reg_xx() use reserved tags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <chunguang.xu at shopee.com>
> ---
>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch at nvidia.com>
-ck
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