Hi Muchun, On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 06:19:19PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote: > Supposing the following scenario with a virtio_blk driver. > > CPU0 CPU1 > > blk_mq_try_issue_directly() > __blk_mq_issue_directly() > q->mq_ops->queue_rq() > virtio_queue_rq() > blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() > virtblk_done() > blk_mq_request_bypass_insert() blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues() > /* Add IO request to dispatch list */ 1) store blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue() > clear_bit(BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED) 3) store > blk_mq_run_hw_queue() blk_mq_run_hw_queue() > if (!blk_mq_hctx_has_pending()) if (!blk_mq_hctx_has_pending()) 4) load > return return > blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() > if (blk_mq_hctx_stopped()) 2) load if (blk_mq_hctx_stopped()) > return return > __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() > > The full memory barrier should be inserted between 1) and 2), as well as between > 3) and 4) to make sure that either CPU0 sees BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED is cleared or CPU1 > sees dispatch list or setting of bitmap of software queue. Otherwise, either CPU > will not re-run the hardware queue causing starvation. Yeah, it is one kind of race which is triggered when adding request into ->dispatch list after returning STS_RESOURCE. We were troubled by lots of such kind of race. stopping queue is used in very less drivers, and its only purpose should be for throttling hw queue in case that low level queue is busy. There seems more uses of blk_mq_stop_hw_queues(), but most of them should be replaced with blk_mq_quiesce_queue(). IMO, fixing this kind of issue via memory barrier is too tricky to maintain cause WRITE/READ dependency is very hard to follow. I'd suggest to make memory barrier solution as the last resort, and we can try to figure out other easier & more reliable way first. One idea I thought of is to call blk_mq_request_bypass_insert()(or rename & export it) before calling blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() in driver, then return new status code STS_STOP_DISPATCH for notifying blk-mq to stop dispatch simply. thanks, Ming
