Re: [PATCH 2/2] blk-mq: simplify queue mapping & schedule with each possisble CPU

jianchao.wang
2018-01-17T08:11:01Z

Hi ming

Thanks for your kindly response.

On 01/17/2018 02:22 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> This warning can't be removed completely, for example, the CPU figured
> in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(hctx) can be put on again just after the
> following call returns and before __blk_mq_run_hw_queue() is scheduled
> to run.
>
> kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on(blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(hctx), &hctx->run_work, msecs_to_jiffies(msecs))
We could use cpu_active in __blk_mq_run_hw_queue() to narrow the window.
There is a big gap between cpu_online and cpu_active. rebind_workers is also between them.

>
> Just be curious how you trigger this issue? And is it triggered in CPU
> hotplug stress test? Or in a normal use case?

In fact, this is my own investigation about whether the .queue_rq to one hardware queue could be executed on
the cpu where it is not mapped. Finally, found this hole when cpu hotplug.
I did the test on NVMe device which has 1-to-1 mapping between cpu and hctx.
- A special patch that could hold some requests on ctx->rq_list though .get_budget
- A script issues IOs with fio
- A script online/offline the cpus continuously
At first, just the warning above. Then after this patch was introduced, panic came up.

Thanks
Jianchao