Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-blkfront: use old rinfo after enomem during migration

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On 11/30/2018 2:33 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:

On 11/30/18 4:49 PM, Manjunath Patil wrote:
Thank you Boris for your comments. I removed faulty email of mine.

replies inline.
On 11/30/2018 12:42 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
On 11/29/18 12:17 AM, Manjunath Patil wrote:
Hi,
Feel free to suggest/comment on this.

I am trying to do the following at dst during the migration now.
1. Dont clear the old rinfo in blkif_free(). Instead just clean it.
2. Store the old rinfo and nr_rings into temp variables in
negotiate_mq()
3. let nr_rings get re-calculated based on backend data
4. try allocating new memory based on new nr_rings
Since I suspect number of rings will likely be the same why not reuse
the rings in the common case?
I thought attaching devices will be more often than migration. Hence
did not want add to an extra check for
   - if I am inside migration code path and
   - if new nr_rings is equal to old nr_rings or not

Sure addition of such a thing would avoid the memory allocation
altogether in migration path,
but it would add a little overhead for normal device addition.

Do you think its worth adding that change?

IMO a couple of extra checks are not going to make much difference.
I will add this change

I wonder though --- have you actually seen the case where you did fail
allocation and changes provided in this patch made things work? I am
asking because right after negotiate_mq() we will call setup_blkring()
and it will want to allocate bunch of memory. A failure there is fatal
(to ring setup). So it seems to me that you will survive negotiate_mq()
but then will likely fail soon after.
I have noticed the ENOMEM insise negotiate_mq() on ct machine. When I included my patch, I manually triggered the ENOMEM using a debug flag.
The patch works for ENOMEM inside negotiate_mq().

As you mentioned, if we really hit the ENOMEM in negotiate_mq(), we might hit it in setup_blkring() as well.
We should add the similar change to blkif_sring struct as well.

I will make this change as well and send the new patch-set for review.


5.
    a. If memory allocation is a success
       - free the old rinfo and proceed to use the new rinfo
    b. If memory allocation is a failure
       - use the old the rinfo
       - adjust the nr_rings to the lowest of new nr_rings and old
nr_rings
@@ -1918,10 +1936,24 @@ static int negotiate_mq(struct blkfront_info
*info)
                     sizeof(struct blkfront_ring_info),
                     GFP_KERNEL);
       if (!info->rinfo) {
-        xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, -ENOMEM, "allocating
ring_info structure");
-        info->nr_rings = 0;
-        return -ENOMEM;
-    }
+        if (unlikely(nr_rings_old)) {
+            /* We might waste some memory if
+             * info->nr_rings < nr_rings_old
+             */
+            info->rinfo = rinfo_old;
+            if (info->nr_rings > nr_rings_old)
+                info->nr_rings = nr_rings_old;
+            xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, -ENOMEM,
Why xenbus_dev_fatal()?
I wanted to make sure that this msg is seen on console by default. So
that we know there was a enomem event happened and we recovered from it.
What do you suggest instead? xenbus_dev_error?
Neither. xenbus_dev_fatal() is going to change connection state so it is
certainly not what we want. And even xenbus_dev_error() doesn't look
like the right thing to do since as far as block device setup is
concerned there are no errors.

Maybe pr_warn().
I will include this.

Thank you for your comments.

-boris


-boris


+            "reusing old ring_info structure(new ring size=%d)",
+                info->nr_rings);
+        } else {
+            xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, -ENOMEM,
+                "allocating ring_info structure");
+            info->nr_rings = 0;
+            return -ENOMEM;
+        }
+    } else if (unlikely(nr_rings_old))
+        kfree(rinfo_old);
         for (i = 0; i < info->nr_rings; i++) {
           struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo;

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