Re: [PATCH V2 5/5] blk-mq: Wait for for hctx inflight requests on CPU unplug

John Garry
2019-05-29T09:42:13Z

On 29/05/2019 03:42, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:28:52AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 05:50:40PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
>>> On 27/05/2019 16:02, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>> Managed interrupts can not migrate affinity when their CPUs are offline.
>>>> If the CPU is allowed to shutdown before they're returned, commands
>>>> dispatched to managed queues won't be able to complete through their
>>>> irq handlers.
>>>>
>>>> Wait in cpu hotplug handler until all inflight requests on the tags
>>>> are completed or timeout. Wait once for each tags, so we can save time
>>>> in case of shared tags.
>>>>
>>>> Based on the following patch from Keith, and use simple delay-spin
>>>> instead.
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190405215920.27085-1-keith.busch@intel.com/
>>>>
>>>> Some SCSI devices may have single blk_mq hw queue and multiple private
>>>> completion queues, and wait until all requests on the private completion
>>>> queue are completed.
>>>
>>> Hi Ming,
>>>
>>> I'm a bit concerned that this approach won't work due to ordering: it seems
>>> that the IRQ would be shutdown prior to the CPU dead notification for the
>>
>> Managed IRQ shutdown is run in irq_migrate_all_off_this_cpu(), which is
>> called in the callback of takedown_cpu(). And the CPU dead notification
>> is always sent after that CPU becomes offline, see cpuhp_invoke_callback().
>
> Hammm, looks we both say same thing.
>
> Yeah, it is too late to drain requests in the cpu hotplug DEAD handler,
> maybe we can try to move managed IRQ shutdown after sending the dead
> notification.
>

Even if the IRQ is shutdown later, all CPUs would still be dead, so none
available to receive the interrupt or do the work for draining the queue.

> I need to think of it further.

It would seem that we just need to be informed of CPU offlining earlier,
and plug the drain in there.

>

Cheers,
John

> Thanks,
> Ming
>
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