Re: [PATCH 5/5] scsi: virtio_scsi: fix IO hang by irq vector automatic affinity

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On 02/03/2018 05:21 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> Now 84676c1f21e8ff5(genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs)
> has been merged to V4.16-rc, and it is easy to allocate all offline CPUs
> for some irq vectors, this can't be avoided even though the allocation
> is improved.
> 
> For example, on a 8cores VM, 4~7 are not-present/offline, 4 queues of
> virtio-scsi, the irq affinity assigned can become the following shape:
> 
> 	irq 36, cpu list 0-7
> 	irq 37, cpu list 0-7
> 	irq 38, cpu list 0-7
> 	irq 39, cpu list 0-1
> 	irq 40, cpu list 4,6
> 	irq 41, cpu list 2-3
> 	irq 42, cpu list 5,7
> 
> Then IO hang is triggered in case of non-SCSI_MQ.
> 
> Given storage IO is always C/S model, there isn't such issue with SCSI_MQ(blk-mq),
> because no IO can be submitted to one hw queue if the hw queue hasn't online
> CPUs.
> 
> Fix this issue by forcing to use blk_mq.
> 
> BTW, I have been used virtio-scsi(scsi_mq) for several years, and it has
> been quite stable, so it shouldn't cause extra risk.
> 
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arun Easi <arun.easi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>,
> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>,
> Cc: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Rivera <peter.rivera@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 59 +++-------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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