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From: kbusch@kernel.org (Keith Busch)
Subject: [PATCH] nvmet: loop: kill timeout handler
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 08:57:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190422145746.GA13273@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190415015146.22580-1-ming.lei@redhat.com>

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019@06:51:46PM -0700, Ming Lei wrote:
> Firstly it doesn't make sense to handle timeout for loop: 1) for admin
> queue, the request is always completed in code path of queuing IO. 2)
> for normal IO request, the timeout on these IOs have been handled by
> underlying queue already.
> 
> Secondly nvme-loop's timeout handler is simply broken, and easy to
> cause issue: 1) no any sync/protection between timeout and normal
> completion, and now it is driver's responsibility to deal with
> that; 2) bad reset implementation, blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues()
> is called after all NSs's queue is stopped(quiesced), and easy
> to trigger deadlock.
> 
> So kill the timeout handler.

Makes sense to me, looks good.

Reviewd-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-22 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-15  1:51 [PATCH] nvmet: loop: kill timeout handler Ming Lei
2019-04-22  9:55 ` Ming Lei
2019-04-22 14:57 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-04-24 16:11 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-04-25 14:52 ` Christoph Hellwig

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