update the subject to better describe the issue:
So I tried this issue on one nvme/rdma environment, and it was also
reproducible, here are the steps:
# echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
# dmesg | tail -10
[ 781.577235] smpboot: CPU 0 is now offline
# nvme connect -t rdma -a 172.31.45.202 -s 4420 -n testnqn
Failed to write to /dev/nvme-fabrics: Invalid cross-device link
no controller found: failed to write to nvme-fabrics device
# dmesg
[ 781.577235] smpboot: CPU 0 is now offline
[ 799.471627] nvme nvme0: creating 39 I/O queues.
[ 801.053782] nvme nvme0: mapped 39/0/0 default/read/poll queues.
[ 801.064149] nvme nvme0: Connect command failed, error wo/DNR bit: -16402
[ 801.073059] nvme nvme0: failed to connect queue: 1 ret=-18
This is because of blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx() and was raised before.
IIRC there was reluctance to make it allocate a request for an hctx even
if its associated mapped cpu is offline.
The latest attempt was from Ming:
[PATCH V7 0/3] blk-mq: fix blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx
Don't know where that went tho...
The attempt relies on that the queue for connecting io queue uses
non-admined irq, unfortunately that can't be true for all drivers,
so that way can't go.
The only consumer is nvme-fabrics, so others don't matter.
Maybe we need a different interface that allows this relaxation.
So far, I'd suggest to fix nvme_*_connect_io_queues() to ignore failed
io queue, then the nvme host still can be setup with less io queues.
What happens when the CPU comes back? Not sure we can simply ignore it.
Anyway, it is a not good choice to fail the whole controller if only one
queue can't be connected.
That is irrelevant.
I meant the queue can be kept as non-LIVE, and
it should work since no any io can be issued to this queue when it is
non-LIVE.
The way that nvme-pci behaves is to create all the queues and either
have them idle when their mapped cpu is offline, and have the queue
there and ready when the cpu comes back. It is the simpler approach and
I would like to have it for fabrics too, but to establish a fabrics
queue we need to send a request (connect) to the controller. The fact
that we cannot simply get a reference to a request for a given hw queue
is baffling to me.
Just wondering why we can't re-connect the io queue and set LIVE after
any CPU in the this hctx->cpumask becomes online? blk-mq could add one
pair of callbacks for driver for handing this queue change.
Certainly possible, but you are creating yet another interface solely
for nvme-fabrics that covers up for the existing interface that does not
satisfy what nvme-fabrics (the only consumer of it) would like it to do.
