From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE8BC56201 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:17:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50620206F9 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:17:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725921AbgKYJRL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2020 04:17:11 -0500 Received: from out30-133.freemail.mail.aliyun.com ([115.124.30.133]:59303 "EHLO out30-133.freemail.mail.aliyun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727194AbgKYJRL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2020 04:17:11 -0500 X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R871e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;DS=||;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=e01e04407;MF=jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=5;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0UGUglMB_1606295827; Received: from admindeMacBook-Pro-2.local(mailfrom:jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0UGUglMB_1606295827) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com(127.0.0.1); Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:17:07 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] block: disable iopoll for split bio To: Ming Lei Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com, hch@infradead.org References: <20201125064147.25389-1-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> <20201125082937.GB28463@T590> From: JeffleXu Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:17:07 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201125082937.GB28463@T590> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On 11/25/20 4:29 PM, Ming Lei wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:41:47PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote: >> iopoll is initially for small size, latency sensitive IO. It doesn't >> work well for big IO, especially when it needs to be split to multiple >> bios. In this case, the returned cookie of __submit_bio_noacct_mq() is >> indeed the cookie of the last split bio. The completion of *this* last >> split bio done by iopoll doesn't mean the whole original bio has >> completed. Callers of iopoll still need to wait for completion of other >> split bios. >> >> Besides bio splitting may cause more trouble for iopoll which isn't >> supposed to be used in case of big IO. >> >> iopoll for split bio may cause potential race if CPU migration happens >> during bio submission. Since the returned cookie is that of the last >> split bio, polling on the corresponding hardware queue doesn't help >> complete other split bios, if these split bios are enqueued into >> different hardware queues. Since interrupts are disabled for polling >> queues, the completion of these other split bios depends on timeout >> mechanism, thus causing a potential hang. >> >> iopoll for split bio may also cause hang for sync polling. Currently >> both the blkdev and iomap-based fs (ext4/xfs, etc) support sync polling >> in direct IO routine. These routines will submit bio without REQ_NOWAIT >> flag set, and then start sync polling in current process context. The >> process may hang in blk_mq_get_tag() if the submitted bio has to be >> split into multiple bios and can rapidly exhaust the queue depth. The >> process are waiting for the completion of the previously allocated >> requests, which should be reaped by the following polling, and thus >> causing a deadlock. >> >> To avoid these subtle trouble described above, just disable iopoll for >> split bio. >> >> Suggested-by: Ming Lei >> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu >> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig >> --- >> block/bio.c | 2 ++ >> block/blk-merge.c | 12 ++++++++++++ >> block/blk-mq.c | 3 +++ >> include/linux/blk_types.h | 1 + >> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c >> index fa01bef35bb1..7f7ddc22a30d 100644 >> --- a/block/bio.c >> +++ b/block/bio.c >> @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ void __bio_clone_fast(struct bio *bio, struct bio *bio_src) >> bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_CLONED); >> if (bio_flagged(bio_src, BIO_THROTTLED)) >> bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_THROTTLED); >> + if (bio_flagged(bio_src, BIO_SPLIT)) >> + bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_SPLIT); >> bio->bi_opf = bio_src->bi_opf; >> bio->bi_ioprio = bio_src->bi_ioprio; >> bio->bi_write_hint = bio_src->bi_write_hint; >> diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c >> index bcf5e4580603..a2890cebf99f 100644 >> --- a/block/blk-merge.c >> +++ b/block/blk-merge.c >> @@ -279,6 +279,18 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q, >> return NULL; >> split: >> *segs = nsegs; >> + >> + /* >> + * Bio splitting may cause subtle trouble such as hang when doing sync >> + * iopoll in direct IO routine. Given performance gain of iopoll for >> + * big IO can be trival, disable iopoll when split needed. We need >> + * BIO_SPLIT to identify bios need this workaround. Since currently >> + * only normal IO under mq routine may suffer this issue, BIO_SPLIT is >> + * only marked here. >> + */ >> + bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_HIPRI; >> + bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_SPLIT); > > You may need to put the above into one helper, and call the helper for > other splitted cases(discard, write zero and write same) too. It could be, though currently only normal IO could be marked with REQ_HIPRI. -- Thanks, Jeffle