Re: [PATCH v3] lpfc: Mitigate high memory pre-allocation by SCSI-MQ

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On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:36 -0700, James Smart wrote:
> When SCSI-MQ is enabled, the SCSI-MQ layers will do pre-allocation of
> MQ resources based on shost values set by the driver. In newer cases
> of the driver, which attempts to set nr_hw_queues to the cpu count,
> the multipliers become excessive, with a single shost having SCSI-MQ
> pre-allocation reaching into the multiple GBytes range.  NPIV, which
> creates additional shosts, only multiply this overhead. On lower-memory
> systems, this can exhaust system memory very quickly, resulting in a
> system crash or failures in the driver or elsewhere due to low memory
> conditions.
> 
> After testing several scenarios, the situation can be mitigated by
> limiting the value set in shost->nr_hw_queues to 4. Although the shost
> values were changed, the driver still had per-cpu hardware queues of
> its own that allowed parallelization per-cpu.  Testing revealed that
> even with the smallish number for nr_hw_queues for SCSI-MQ, performance
> levels remained near maximum with the within-driver affiinitization.
> 
> A module parameter was created to allow the value set for the
> nr_hw_queues to be tunable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> v3: add Ming's reviewed-by tag
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h      |  1 +
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 10 ++++++----
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli4.h |  5 +++++
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h
> index 2c3bb8a966e5..bade2e025ecf 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h
> @@ -824,6 +824,7 @@ struct lpfc_hba {
>  	uint32_t cfg_cq_poll_threshold;
>  	uint32_t cfg_cq_max_proc_limit;
>  	uint32_t cfg_fcp_cpu_map;
> +	uint32_t cfg_fcp_mq_threshold;
>  	uint32_t cfg_hdw_queue;
>  	uint32_t cfg_irq_chann;
>  	uint32_t cfg_suppress_rsp;
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
> index ea62322ffe2b..8d8c495b5b60 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
> @@ -5709,6 +5709,19 @@ LPFC_ATTR_RW(nvme_embed_cmd, 1, 0, 2,
>  	     "Embed NVME Command in WQE");
>  
>  /*
> + * lpfc_fcp_mq_threshold: Set the maximum number of Hardware Queues
> + * the driver will advertise it supports to the SCSI layer.
> + *
> + *      0    = Set nr_hw_queues by the number of CPUs or HW queues.
> + *      1,128 = Manually specify the maximum nr_hw_queue value to be set,
> + *
> + * Value range is [0,128]. Default value is 8.
> + */
> +LPFC_ATTR_R(fcp_mq_threshold, LPFC_FCP_MQ_THRESHOLD_DEF,
> +	    LPFC_FCP_MQ_THRESHOLD_MIN, LPFC_FCP_MQ_THRESHOLD_MAX,
> +	    "Set the number of SCSI Queues advertised");
> +
> +/*
>   * lpfc_hdw_queue: Set the number of Hardware Queues the driver
>   * will advertise it supports to the NVME and  SCSI layers. This also
>   * will map to the number of CQ/WQ pairs the driver will create.
> @@ -6030,6 +6043,7 @@ struct device_attribute *lpfc_hba_attrs[] = {
>  	&dev_attr_lpfc_cq_poll_threshold,
>  	&dev_attr_lpfc_cq_max_proc_limit,
>  	&dev_attr_lpfc_fcp_cpu_map,
> +	&dev_attr_lpfc_fcp_mq_threshold,
>  	&dev_attr_lpfc_hdw_queue,
>  	&dev_attr_lpfc_irq_chann,
>  	&dev_attr_lpfc_suppress_rsp,
> @@ -7112,6 +7126,7 @@ lpfc_get_cfgparam(struct lpfc_hba *phba)
>  	/* Initialize first burst. Target vs Initiator are different. */
>  	lpfc_nvme_enable_fb_init(phba, lpfc_nvme_enable_fb);
>  	lpfc_nvmet_fb_size_init(phba, lpfc_nvmet_fb_size);
> +	lpfc_fcp_mq_threshold_init(phba, lpfc_fcp_mq_threshold);
>  	lpfc_hdw_queue_init(phba, lpfc_hdw_queue);
>  	lpfc_irq_chann_init(phba, lpfc_irq_chann);
>  	lpfc_enable_bbcr_init(phba, lpfc_enable_bbcr);
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> index faf43b1d3dbe..03998579d6ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> @@ -4309,10 +4309,12 @@ lpfc_create_port(struct lpfc_hba *phba, int instance, struct device *dev)
>  	shost->max_cmd_len = 16;
>  
>  	if (phba->sli_rev == LPFC_SLI_REV4) {
> -		if (phba->cfg_fcp_io_sched == LPFC_FCP_SCHED_BY_HDWQ)
> -			shost->nr_hw_queues = phba->cfg_hdw_queue;
> -		else
> -			shost->nr_hw_queues = phba->sli4_hba.num_present_cpu;
> +		if (!phba->cfg_fcp_mq_threshold ||
> +		    phba->cfg_fcp_mq_threshold > phba->cfg_hdw_queue)
> +			phba->cfg_fcp_mq_threshold = phba->cfg_hdw_queue;
> +
> +		shost->nr_hw_queues = min_t(int, 2 * num_possible_nodes(),
> +					    phba->cfg_fcp_mq_threshold);
>  
>  		shost->dma_boundary =
>  			phba->sli4_hba.pc_sli4_params.sge_supp_len-1;
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli4.h b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli4.h
> index 3aeca387b22a..329f7aa7e169 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli4.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli4.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
>  #define LPFC_HBA_HDWQ_MAX	128
>  #define LPFC_HBA_HDWQ_DEF	0
>  
> +/* FCP MQ queue count limiting */
> +#define LPFC_FCP_MQ_THRESHOLD_MIN	0
> +#define LPFC_FCP_MQ_THRESHOLD_MAX	128
> +#define LPFC_FCP_MQ_THRESHOLD_DEF	8
> +
>  /* Common buffer size to accomidate SCSI and NVME IO buffers */
>  #define LPFC_COMMON_IO_BUF_SZ	768
>  

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx>



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