From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753800AbbCaPCp (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:02:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f54.google.com ([74.125.82.54]:36816 "EHLO mail-wg0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752732AbbCaPCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:02:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:02:38 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Rik van Riel Cc: axboe@kernel.org, fweisbec@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] nohz,blk-mq: do not create blk-mq workqueues on nohz dedicated CPUs Message-ID: <20150331150236.GA28093@lerouge> References: <20150331102726.076a6860@annuminas.surriel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150331102726.076a6860@annuminas.surriel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:27:26AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > CPUs with nohz_full do not want disruption from timer interrupts, > or other random system things. This includes block mq work. > > There is another issue with block mq vs. realtime tasks that run > 100% of the time, which is not uncommon on systems that have CPUs > dedicated to real time use with isolcpus= and nohz_full= > > Specifically, on systems like that, a block work item may never > get to run, which could lead to filesystems getting stuck forever. > > We can avoid both issues by not scheduling blk-mq workqueues on > cpus in nohz_full mode. > > Question for Jens: should we try to spread out the load for > currently offline and nohz CPUs across the remaining CPUs in > the system, to get the full benefit of blk-mq in these situations? > > If so, do you have any preference on how I should implement that? > > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Jens Axboe > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel > --- > block/blk-mq.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c > index 4f4bea21052e..1004d6817fa4 100644 > --- a/block/blk-mq.c > +++ b/block/blk-mq.c > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > > #include > > @@ -1760,6 +1761,10 @@ static void blk_mq_init_cpu_queues(struct request_queue *q, > if (!cpu_online(i)) > continue; > > + /* Do not schedule work on nohz full dedicated CPUs. */ > + if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(i)) > + continue; I guess in this case, the queue for this CPU will be handled by another CPU? Is this an unbound workqueue? I guess it's not but if it is, we should wait for the workqueue affinity patchset. Also, since we are doing a lot of kernel pre-setting behind nohz full, it would be nice to warn the user about each of them in dmesg. > + > hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, i); > cpumask_set_cpu(i, hctx->cpumask); > hctx->nr_ctx++; > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/