[PATCH] nvme: fix reconnection fail due to reserved tag allocation

许春光 brookxu.cn at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 02:32:27 PST 2024


Thanks for review, seems that we should revert this patch
ed01fee283a0, ed01fee283a0 seems just a alone 'optimization'.  If no
double, I will send another patch.

Thanks

Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me> 于2024年3月7日周四 17:36写道:
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> On 28/02/2024 11:14, brookxu.cn wrote:
> > From: Chunguang Xu <chunguang.xu at shopee.com>
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> > We found a issue on production environment while using NVMe
> > over RDMA, admin_q reconnect failed forever while remote
> > target and network is ok. After dig into it, we found it
> > may caused by a ABBA deadlock due to tag allocation. In my
> > case, the tag was hold by a keep alive request waiting
> > inside admin_q, as we quiesced admin_q while reset ctrl,
> > so the request maked as idle and will not process before
> > reset success. As fabric_q shares tagset with admin_q,
> > while reconnect remote target, we need a tag for connect
> > command, but the only one reserved tag was held by keep
> > alive command which waiting inside admin_q. As a result,
> > we failed to reconnect admin_q forever.
> >
> > In order to workaround this issue, I think we should not
> > retry keep alive request while controller reconnecting,
> > as we have stopped keep alive while resetting controller,
> > and will start it again while init finish, so it maybe ok
> > to drop it.
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> This is the wrong fix.
> First we should note that this is a regression caused by:
> ed01fee283a0 ("nvme-fabrics: only reserve a single tag")
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> Then, you need to restore reserving two tags for the admin
> tagset.



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