Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] md: Make md resync and reshape threads freezable

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:01:03PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:09:15PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 07:04 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:29:18PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > > Some people use the md driver on laptops and use the suspend and
> > > > resume functionality. Since it is essential that submitting of
> > > > new I/O requests stops before device quiescing starts, make the
> > > > md resync and reshape threads freezable.
> > > 
> > > As I explained, if SCSI quiesce is safe, this patch shouldn't
> > > be needed.
> > > 
> > > The issue isn't MD specific, and in theory can be triggered
> > > on all devices. And you can see the I/O hang report on BTRFS(RAID)
> > > without MD involved:
> > > 
> > > 	https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=150634883816965&w=2
> > 
> > What makes you think that this patch is not necessary once SCSI quiesce
> > has been made safe? Does this mean that you have not tested suspend and
> 
> If we want to make SCSI quiesce safe, we have to drain up all submitted
> I/O and prevent new I/O from being submitted, that is enough to deal
> with MD's resync too.
> 
> > resume while md RAID 1 resync was in progress? This patch is necessary
> > to avoid that suspend locks up while md RAID 1 resync is in progress.
> 
> I tested my patchset on RAID10 when resync in progress, not see any
> issue during suspend/resume, without any MD's change. I will test
> RAID1's later, but I don't think there is difference compared with
> RAID10 because my patchset can make the queue being quiesced totally.

I am pretty sure that suspend/resume can survive when resync in progress
with my patchset applied on RAID1, without any MD change.

There are reports on suspend/resume on btrfs(RAID) and revalidate path
in scsi_transport_spi device, so the issue isn't MD specific again.

If your patchset depends on this MD change, something should be wrong
in the following patches. Now I need to take a close look.


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Ming
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