Re: [PATCH 2/5] dm-mpath: return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in case of rq allocation failure

[Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 17 2017 at  9:23am -0400,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 04:06:55PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 15 2017 at  1:29pm -0400,
> > Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2017-09-16 at 00:44 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > blk-mq will rerun queue via RESTART after one request is completion,
> > > > so not necessary to wait random time for requeuing, it should trust
> > > > blk-mq to do it.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> > > > index 96aedaac2c64..f5a1088a6e79 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> > > > @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static int multipath_clone_and_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct request *rq,
> > > >  			atomic_inc(&m->pg_init_in_progress);
> > > >  			activate_or_offline_path(pgpath);
> > > >  		}
> > > > -		return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE;
> > > > +		return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE;
> > > >  	}
> > > >  	clone->bio = clone->biotail = NULL;
> > > >  	clone->rq_disk = bdev->bd_disk;
> > > 
> > > So you are reverting the patch below? Thank you very much.
> > > 
> > > commit 1c23484c355ec360ca2f37914f8a4802c6baeead
> > > Author: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
> > > Date:   Wed Aug 9 11:32:12 2017 -0700
> > > 
> > >     dm mpath: do not lock up a CPU with requeuing activity
> > >     
> > >     When using the block layer in single queue mode, get_request()
> > >     returns ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) if the queue is dying and the REQ_NOWAIT
> > >     flag has been passed to get_request(). Avoid that the kernel
> > >     reports soft lockup complaints in this case due to continuous
> > >     requeuing activity.
> > >     
> > >     Fixes: 7083abbbf ("dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop")
> > >     Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > >     Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
> > >     Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
> > >     Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > >     Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
> > 
> > The problem is that multipath_clone_and_map() is now treated as common
> > code (thanks to both blk-mq and old .request_fn now enjoying the use of
> > blk_get_request) BUT: Ming please understand that this code is used by
> > old .request_fn too.  So it would seem that the use of
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> OK, thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> > DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE vs DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE needs to be based on dm-sq vs
> > dm-mq.
> 
> Yeah, just forget that dm-mq can't work on underlying queue which is
> block legacy path, also forget the exact reason, :-(

Not sure how that detail is relevant to your patch?

But here are the 2 patches I posted as RFC to eliminate the restriction:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9839565/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9839567/

In the end I'm not too interested in supporting blk-mq multipath ontop
of block legacy path.  But I'd revisit if hch or someone else posted the
blk-mq patch that "removed the ->complete handler" (as hch mentions in
the thread of the first patchwork patch I reference above).

Mike