Re: [PATCH -next] blk-mq: fix boot time regression for scsi drives with multiple hctx

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 09:15:36PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> 在 2022/06/14 15:31, Ming Lei 写道:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:14:10PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> > > We found that boot time is increased for about 8s after upgrading kernel
> > > from v4.19 to v5.10(megaraid-sas is used in the environment).
> > 
> > But 'blk-mq: clearing flush request reference in tags->rqs[]' was merged
> > to v5.14, :-)
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, but this patch is applied to 5.10 stable, thus we backport in our
> v5.10. Sorry that I didn't mention that.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Following is where the extra time is spent:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   __scsi_remove_device
> > >    blk_cleanup_queue
> > >     blk_mq_exit_queue
> > >      blk_mq_exit_hw_queues
> > >       blk_mq_exit_hctx
> > >        blk_mq_clear_flush_rq_mapping -> function latency is 0.1ms
> > 
> > So queue_depth looks pretty long, is it 4k?
> No, in the environment, it's just 32, and nr_hw_queues is 128, which
> means each blk_cleanup_queue() will cost about 10-20 ms.

So 32 * cmpxchg takes 100us, which is really crazy, what is the arch
and processor?

> 
> > 
> > But if it is 0.1ms, how can the 8sec delay be caused? That requires 80K hw queues
> > for making so long, so I guess there must be other delay added by the feature
> > of BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED.
> 
> Please see details in the reasons 2), scsi scan will call
> __scsi_remove_device() a lot of times(each host, each channel, each
> target).

80K / 128 = 640 LUNs.

OK, that can be true.

> > 
> > >         cmpxchg
> > > 
> > > There are three reasons:
> > > 1) megaraid-sas is using multiple hctxs in v5.10, thus blk_mq_exit_hctx()
> > > will be called much more times in v5.10 compared to v4.19.
> > > 2) scsi will scan for each target thus __scsi_remove_device() will be
> > > called for many times.
> > > 3) blk_mq_clear_flush_rq_mapping() is introduced after v4.19, it will
> > > call cmpxchg() for each request, and function latency is abount 0.1ms.
> > > 
> > > Since that blk_mq_clear_flush_rq_mapping() will only be called while the
> > > queue is freezed already, which means there is no inflight request,
> > > it's safe to set NULL for 'tags->rqs[]' directly instead of using
> > > cmpxchg(). Tests show that with this change, function latency of
> > > blk_mq_clear_flush_rq_mapping() is about 1us, and boot time is not
> > > increased.
> > 
> > tags is shared among all LUNs attached to the host, so freezing single
> > request queue here means nothing, so your patch doesn't work.
> 
> You'are right, I forgot about that tags can be shared.
> 
> > 
> > Please test the following patch, and see if it can improve boot delay for
> > your case.
> > 
> > diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> > index e9bf950983c7..1463076a527c 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> > @@ -3443,8 +3443,9 @@ static void blk_mq_exit_hctx(struct request_queue *q,
> >   	if (blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped(hctx))
> >   		blk_mq_tag_idle(hctx);
> > -	blk_mq_clear_flush_rq_mapping(set->tags[hctx_idx],
> > -			set->queue_depth, flush_rq);
> > +	if (blk_queue_init_done(q))
> > +		blk_mq_clear_flush_rq_mapping(set->tags[hctx_idx],
> > +				set->queue_depth, flush_rq);
> >   	if (set->ops->exit_request)
> >   		set->ops->exit_request(set, flush_rq, hctx_idx);
> 
> Thanks for the patch, I test it and boot delay is fixed.

Thanks for the test, and I will send it out tomorrow.

Thanks,
Ming