Re: [PATCH v12 10/26] nvme-tcp: Deal with netdevice DOWN events

[Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>]

On 7/12/23 19:14, Aurelien Aptel wrote:
> From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@nvidia.com>
> 
> For ddp setup/teardown and resync, the offloading logic
> uses HW resources at the NIC driver such as SQ and CQ.
> 
> These resources are destroyed when the netdevice does down
> and hence we must stop using them before the NIC driver
> destroys them.
> 
> Use netdevice notifier for that matter -- offloaded connections
> are stopped before the stack continues to call the NIC driver
> close ndo.
> 
> We use the existing recovery flow which has the advantage
> of resuming the offload once the connection is re-set.
> 
> This also buys us proper handling for the UNREGISTER event
> b/c our offloading starts in the UP state, and down is always
> there between up to unregister.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Pismenny <borisp@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Ben-Ishay <benishay@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yoray Zack <yorayz@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shai Malin <smalin@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> index df58668cbad6..e68e5da3df76 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ struct nvme_tcp_ctrl {
>   
>   static LIST_HEAD(nvme_tcp_ctrl_list);
>   static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
> +static struct notifier_block nvme_tcp_netdevice_nb;
>   static struct workqueue_struct *nvme_tcp_wq;
>   static const struct blk_mq_ops nvme_tcp_mq_ops;
>   static const struct blk_mq_ops nvme_tcp_admin_mq_ops;
> @@ -3234,6 +3235,30 @@ static struct nvme_ctrl *nvme_tcp_create_ctrl(struct device *dev,
>   	return ERR_PTR(ret);
>   }
>   
> +static int nvme_tcp_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
> +				 unsigned long event, void *ptr)
> +{
> +	struct net_device *ndev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
> +	struct nvme_tcp_ctrl *ctrl;
> +
> +	switch (event) {
> +	case NETDEV_GOING_DOWN:
> +		mutex_lock(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
> +		list_for_each_entry(ctrl, &nvme_tcp_ctrl_list, list) {
> +			if (ndev == ctrl->offloading_netdev)
> +				nvme_tcp_error_recovery(&ctrl->ctrl);
> +		}
> +		mutex_unlock(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
> +		flush_workqueue(nvme_reset_wq);

In what context is this called? because every time we flush a workqueue,
lockdep finds another reason to complain about something...

Otherwise looks good,
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>