Re: [bug report] NVMe/IB: reset_controller need more than 1min

[Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>]

On 3/19/2022 9:29 AM, Yi Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:16 PM Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> wrote:
>>
>>>> Hi Yi Zhang,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for testing the patches.
>>>>
>>>> Can you provide more info on the time it took with both kernels ?
>>> Hi Max
>>> Sorry for the late response, here are the test results/dmesg on
>>> debug/non-debug kernel with your patch:
>>> debug kernel: timeout
>>> # time nvme connect -t rdma -a 172.31.0.202 -s 4420 -n testnqn
>>> real    0m16.956s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.237s
>>> # time nvme reset /dev/nvme0
>>> real    1m33.623s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.024s
>>> # time nvme disconnect-all
>>> real    1m26.640s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m9.969s
>>>
>>> host dmesg:
>>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpastebin.com%2F8T3Lqtkn&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cmgurtovoy%40nvidia.com%7Cc89cc47d8acf4ef3256408da097a3305%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C637832717692265478%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=qtZ8E6cvHlSu8LbUkBa0ehhguyQRfP%2B%2BC8BEonDNj9Y%3D&amp;reserved=0
>>> target dmesg:
>>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpastebin.com%2FKpFP7xG2&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cmgurtovoy%40nvidia.com%7Cc89cc47d8acf4ef3256408da097a3305%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C637832717692265478%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=DerGWqQmWm9C30FFGbb5AcU%2B%2BrBErKClXzFlqSJT7jw%3D&amp;reserved=0
>>>
>>> non-debug kernel: no timeout issue, but still 12s for reset, and 8s
>>> for disconnect
>>> host:
>>> # time nvme connect -t rdma -a 172.31.0.202 -s 4420 -n testnqn
>>>
>>> real    0m4.579s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.004s
>>> # time nvme reset /dev/nvme0
>>>
>>> real    0m12.778s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.006s
>>> # time nvme reset /dev/nvme0
>>>
>>> real    0m12.793s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.006s
>>> # time nvme reset /dev/nvme0
>>>
>>> real    0m12.808s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.006s
>>> # time nvme disconnect-all
>>>
>>> real    0m8.348s
>>> user    0m0.000s
>>> sys     0m0.189s
>> These are very long times for a non-debug kernel...
>> Max, do you see the root cause for this?
>>
>> Yi, does this happen with rxe/siw as well?
> Hi Sagi
>
> rxe/siw will take less than 1s
> with rdma_rxe
> # time nvme reset /dev/nvme0
> real 0m0.094s
> user 0m0.000s
> sys 0m0.006s
>
> with siw
> # time nvme reset /dev/nvme0
> real 0m0.097s
> user 0m0.000s
> sys 0m0.006s
>
> This is only reproducible with mlx IB card, as I mentioned before, the
> reset operation time changed from 3s to 12s after the below commit,
> could you check this commit?
>
> commit 5ec5d3bddc6b912b7de9e3eb6c1f2397faeca2bc
> Author: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
> Date:   Tue May 19 17:05:56 2020 +0300
>
>      nvme-rdma: add metadata/T10-PI support
>
I couldn't repro these long reset times.

Nevertheless, the above commit added T10-PI offloads.

In this commit, for supported devices we create extra resources in HW 
(more memory keys per task).

I suggested doing this configuration as part of the "nvme connect" 
command and save this resource allocation by default but during the 
review I was asked to make it the default behavior.

Sagi/Christoph,

WDYT ? should we reconsider the "nvme connect --with_metadata" option ?

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