Re: [PATCH V5 0/6] blk-mq: improvement CPU hotplug

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 15/01/2020 11:44, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thomas mentioned:
>      "
>       That was the constraint of managed interrupts from the very beginning:
>      
>        The driver/subsystem has to quiesce the interrupt line and the associated
>        queue _before_ it gets shutdown in CPU unplug and not fiddle with it
>        until it's restarted by the core when the CPU is plugged in again.
>      "
> 
> But no drivers or blk-mq do that before one hctx becomes inactive(all
> CPUs for one hctx are offline), and even it is worse, blk-mq stills tries
> to run hw queue after hctx is dead, see blk_mq_hctx_notify_dead().
> 
> This patchset tries to address the issue by two stages:
> 
> 1) add one new cpuhp state of CPUHP_AP_BLK_MQ_ONLINE
> 
> - mark the hctx as internal stopped, and drain all in-flight requests
> if the hctx is going to be dead.
> 
> 2) re-submit IO in the state of CPUHP_BLK_MQ_DEAD after the hctx becomes dead
> 
> - steal bios from the request, and resubmit them via generic_make_request(),
> then these IO will be mapped to other live hctx for dispatch
> 
> Please comment & review, thanks!
> 
> V5:
> 	- rename BLK_MQ_S_INTERNAL_STOPPED as BLK_MQ_S_INACTIVE
> 	- re-factor code for re-submit requests in cpu dead hotplug handler
> 	- address requeue corner case
> 
> V4:
> 	- resubmit IOs in dispatch list in case that this hctx is dead
> 
> V3:
> 	- re-organize patch 2 & 3 a bit for addressing Hannes's comment
> 	- fix patch 4 for avoiding potential deadlock, as found by Hannes
> 
> V2:
> 	- patch4 & patch 5 in V1 have been merged to block tree, so remove
> 	  them
> 	- address comments from John Garry and Minwoo
> 
> 

thanks Ming, we'll have a look at this new series and test it again.

John

> 
> Ming Lei (6):
>    blk-mq: add new state of BLK_MQ_S_INACTIVE
>    blk-mq: prepare for draining IO when hctx's all CPUs are offline
>    blk-mq: stop to handle IO and drain IO before hctx becomes inactive
>    blk-mq: re-submit IO in case that hctx is inactive
>    blk-mq: handle requests dispatched from IO scheduler in case of
>      inactive hctx
>    block: deactivate hctx when all its CPUs are offline when running
>      queue
> 
>   block/blk-mq-debugfs.c     |   2 +
>   block/blk-mq-tag.c         |   2 +-
>   block/blk-mq-tag.h         |   2 +
>   block/blk-mq.c             | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>   block/blk-mq.h             |   3 +-
>   drivers/block/loop.c       |   2 +-
>   drivers/md/dm-rq.c         |   2 +-
>   include/linux/blk-mq.h     |   6 ++
>   include/linux/cpuhotplug.h |   1 +
>   9 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
>