On 1/26/19 6:10 AM, Florian Stecker wrote: > > > On 1/25/19 10:05 AM, jianchao.wang wrote: >> >> >> On 1/25/19 4:56 PM, Florian Stecker wrote: >>> On 1/25/19 4:49 AM, jianchao.wang wrote: >>>> >>>> It sounds like not so easy to trigger. >>>> >>>> blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list >>>> scsi_queue_rq >>>> if (atomic_read(&sdev->device_busy) || >>>> scsi_device_blocked(sdev)) >>>> ret = BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE; scsi_end_request >>>> __blk_mq_end_request >>>> blk_mq_sched_restart // clear RESTART >>>> blk_mq_run_hw_queue >>>> blk_mq_run_hw_queues >>>> list_splice_init(list, &hctx->dispatch) >>>> needs_restart = blk_mq_sched_needs_restart(hctx) >>>> >>>> The 'needs_restart' will be false, so the queue would be rerun. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Jianchao >>> >>> Good point. So the RESTART flag is supposed to protect against this? Now I see, this is also sort of what the lengthy comment in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list is saying. >>> >>> May I complain that this is very unintuitive (the queue gets rerun when the RESTART flag is _not_ set) and also unreliable, as not every caller of blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list seems to set the flag, and also it does not always get cleared in __blk_mq_end_request? >>> >>> __blk_mq_end_request does the following: >>> >>> if (rq->end_io) { >>> rq_qos_done(rq->q, rq); >>> rq->end_io(rq, error); >>> } else { >>> if (unlikely(blk_bidi_rq(rq))) >>> blk_mq_free_request(rq->next_rq); >>> blk_mq_free_request(rq); >>> } >>> >>> and blk_mq_free_request then calls blk_mq_sched_restart, which clears the flag. But in my case, rq->end_io != 0, so blk_mq_free_request is never called. >> >> So what is your rq->end_io ? >> flush_end_io ? or mq_flush_data_end_io ? or other ? >> In normal case, the blk_mq_end_request should be finally invoked. >> >> Did you ever try the bfq io scheduler instead of mq-deadline ? >> >> Can you share your dmesg and config file here ? > > Sure. > > dmesg: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__florianstecker.de_dmesg-2D2019-2D01-2D25.txt&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=7WdAxUBeiTUTCy8v-7zXyr4qk7sx26ATvfo6QSTvZyQ&m=t_udGGsH8ivtjXHin4oQ4LxELuPoXbl_ARP7oSxiQ6k&s=DC2fhRw2g4haGhhHxOYyX4zD6FWQQ5YoERdfptVRHM4&e= > Note that no I/O scheduler is in use here, I deactivated them in a udev rule because I still want to be able to use my laptop. When I test this stuff I just reactivate mq-deadline manually. > > Config is the default in Arch Linux: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__git.archlinux.org_svntogit_packages.git_tree_trunk_config-3Fh-3Dpackages_linux&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=7WdAxUBeiTUTCy8v-7zXyr4qk7sx26ATvfo6QSTvZyQ&m=t_udGGsH8ivtjXHin4oQ4LxELuPoXbl_ARP7oSxiQ6k&s=GjV_fyXaKZ8za8zdB_gqmKW7yBlbla2OHRaAT0iGZkc&e= > > The problem also appears with BFQ. > > And rq->end_io is set to mq_flush_data_end_io when this happens. The only point I see where this function could invoke blk_mq_end_request is via blk_flush_complete_seq, but it does so only if seq == REQ_FSEQ_DONE. However, seq is REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH for me (i.e. it just transitioned from REQ_FSEQ_DATA to REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH). Could it be this scenario ? data + post flush blk_flush_complete_seq a flush case REQ_FSEQ_DATA blk_flush_queue_rq finally issued to driver blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list try to issue a flush req failed due to NON-NCQ command due to RESTART is set, do nothing req complete req->end_io() // doesn't check RESTART mq_flush_data_end_io blk_flush_complete_seq case REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH blk_kick_flush do nothing because previous flush has not been completed, so flush_pending_idx != flush_running_idx Thanks Jianchao >> >