Re: [PATCH 2/2] blk-mq: simplify queue mapping & schedule with each possisble CPU

Ming Lei
2018-01-17T09:58:10Z

Hi Jianchao,

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 04:09:11PM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
> Hi ming
>
> Thanks for your kindly response.
>
> On 01/17/2018 02:22 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > This warning can't be removed completely, for example, the CPU figured
> > in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(hctx) can be put on again just after the
> > following call returns and before __blk_mq_run_hw_queue() is scheduled
> > to run.
> >
> > kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on(blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(hctx), &hctx->run_work, msecs_to_jiffies(msecs))
> We could use cpu_active in __blk_mq_run_hw_queue() to narrow the window.
> There is a big gap between cpu_online and cpu_active. rebind_workers is also between them.

This warning is harmless, also you can't reproduce it without help of your
special patch, I guess, :-) So the window shouldn't be a big deal.

But it can be a problem about the delay(msecs_to_jiffies(msecs)) passed to
kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on(), because during the period:

1) hctx->next_cpu can become online from offline before __blk_mq_run_hw_queue
is run, your warning is triggered, but it is harmless

2) hctx->next_cpu can become offline from online before __blk_mq_run_hw_queue
is run, there isn't warning, but once the IO is submitted to hardware,
after it is completed, how does the HBA/hw queue notify CPU since CPUs
assigned to this hw queue(irq vector) are offline? blk-mq's timeout
handler may cover that, but looks too tricky.

>
> >
> > Just be curious how you trigger this issue? And is it triggered in CPU
> > hotplug stress test? Or in a normal use case?
>
> In fact, this is my own investigation about whether the .queue_rq to one hardware queue could be executed on
> the cpu where it is not mapped. Finally, found this hole when cpu hotplug.
> I did the test on NVMe device which has 1-to-1 mapping between cpu and hctx.
> - A special patch that could hold some requests on ctx->rq_list though .get_budget
> - A script issues IOs with fio
> - A script online/offline the cpus continuously

Thanks for sharing your reproduction approach.

Without a handler for CPU hotplug, it isn't easy to avoid the warning
completely in __blk_mq_run_hw_queue().

> At first, just the warning above. Then after this patch was introduced, panic came up.

We have to fix the panic, so I will post the patch you tested in this thread.

Thanks,
Ming