Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 09:09:13AM +0800, chenxiang (M) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 在 2019/10/14 9:50, Ming Lei 写道:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thomas mentioned:
> >      "
> >       That was the constraint of managed interrupts from the very beginning:
> >        The driver/subsystem has to quiesce the interrupt line and the associated
> >        queue _before_ it gets shutdown in CPU unplug and not fiddle with it
> >        until it's restarted by the core when the CPU is plugged in again.
> >      "
> > 
> > But no drivers or blk-mq do that before one hctx becomes dead(all
> > CPUs for one hctx are offline), and even it is worse, blk-mq stills tries
> > to run hw queue after hctx is dead, see blk_mq_hctx_notify_dead().
> > 
> > This patchset tries to address the issue by two stages:
> > 
> > 1) add one new cpuhp state of CPUHP_AP_BLK_MQ_ONLINE
> > 
> > - mark the hctx as internal stopped, and drain all in-flight requests
> > if the hctx is going to be dead.
> > 
> > 2) re-submit IO in the state of CPUHP_BLK_MQ_DEAD after the hctx becomes dead
> > 
> > - steal bios from the request, and resubmit them via generic_make_request(),
> > then these IO will be mapped to other live hctx for dispatch
> > 
> > Please comment & review, thanks!
> > 
> > John, I don't add your tested-by tag since V3 have some changes,
> > and I appreciate if you may run your test on V3.
> 
> I tested those patchset with John's testcase, except dump_stack() in
> function __blk_mq_run_hw_queue() sometimes occurs  which don't
> affect the function, it solves the CPU hotplug issue, so add tested-by for
> those patchset:
> 
> Tested-by: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your test.

I plan to post a new version for 5.6 cycle, and there is still some
small race window related with requeue to be covered.

Thanks,
Ming





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