[PATCH 3.12 128/133] iscsi-target: Pre-allocate more tags to avoid ack starvation

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-04T22:00:19Z

From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

commit 4a4caa29f1abcb14377e05d57c0793d338fb945d upstream.

This patch addresses an traditional iscsi-target fabric ack starvation
issue where iscsit_allocate_cmd() -> percpu_ida_alloc_state() ends up
hitting slow path percpu-ida code, because iscsit_ack_from_expstatsn()
is expected to free ack'ed tags after tag allocation.

This is done to take into account the tags waiting to be acknowledged
and released in iscsit_ack_from_expstatsn(), but who's number are not
directly limited by the CmdSN Window queue_depth being enforced by
the target.

So that said, this patch bumps up the pre-allocated number of
per session tags to:

(max(queue_depth, ISCSIT_MIN_TAGS) * 2) + ISCSIT_EXTRA_TAGS

for good measure to avoid the percpu_ida_alloc_state() slow path.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
@@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ get_target:
*/
alloc_tags:
tag_num = max_t(u32, ISCSIT_MIN_TAGS, queue_depth);
- tag_num += (tag_num / 2) + ISCSIT_EXTRA_TAGS;
+ tag_num = (tag_num * 2) + ISCSIT_EXTRA_TAGS;
tag_size = sizeof(struct iscsi_cmd) + conn->conn_transport->priv_size;

ret = transport_alloc_session_tags(sess->se_sess, tag_num, tag_size);