From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vitaly Kuznetsov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Fix calculation of sub-channel count Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:45:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87imvx261i.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> References: <1554076559-14873-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1554076559-14873-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Kelley Cc: KY Srinivasan , "martin.petersen@oracle.com" , Long Li , "James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" , "emilne@redhat.com" , "linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Michael Kelley writes: > When the number of sub-channels offered by Hyper-V is >= the number > of CPUs in the VM, calculate the correct number of sub-channels. > The current code produces one too many. > > This scenario arises only when the number of CPUs is artificially > restricted (for example, with maxcpus= on the kernel boot line), > because Hyper-V normally offers a sub-channel count < number of CPUs. > While the current code doesn't break, the extra sub-channel is > unbalanced across the CPUs (for example, a total of 5 channels on > a VM with 4 CPUs). > > Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley > --- > drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 12 +++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c > index 84380ba..fbaa11a 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c > @@ -674,7 +674,17 @@ static void handle_multichannel_storage(struct hv_device *device, int max_chns) > struct vstor_packet *vstor_packet; > int ret, t; > > - num_sc = ((max_chns > num_cpus) ? num_cpus : max_chns); > + /* > + * If the number of CPUs is artificially restricted, such as > + * with maxcpus=1 on the kernel boot line, Hyper-V could offer > + * sub-channels >= the number of CPUs. These sub-channels > + * should not be created. The primary channel is already created > + * and assigned to one CPU, so check against # CPUs - 1. > + */ Indeed. > + num_sc = min((num_cpus - 1), max_chns); Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov (nit: you could've written num_sc = min((num_online_cpus() - 1), max_chns); and got rid of the now-unneeded num_cpus variable). > + if (!num_sc) > + return; > + > stor_device = get_out_stor_device(device); > if (!stor_device) > return; -- Vitaly