This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iscsi-target: Fix immediate queue starvation regression with DATAIN
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iscsi-target-fix-immediate-queue-starvation-regression-with-datain.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From fd3a9025c0349bc9b01d627529f54e6e1e389015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:53:52 -0800
Subject: iscsi-target: Fix immediate queue starvation regression with DATAIN
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit fd3a9025c0349bc9b01d627529f54e6e1e389015 upstream.
This patch addresses a v3.5+ regression in iscsi-target where TX thread
process context -> handle_response_queue() execution is allowed to run
unbounded while servicing constant outgoing flow of ISTATE_SEND_DATAIN
response state.
This ends up preventing memory release of StatSN acknowledged commands
in a timely manner when under heavy large block streaming DATAIN
workloads.
The regression bug was initially introduced with:
commit 6f3c0e69a9c20441bdc6d3b2d18b83b244384ec6
Author: Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 3 15:51:09 2012 -0700
target/iscsi: Refactor target_tx_thread immediate+response queue loops
Go ahead and follow original iscsi_target_tx_thread() logic and check
to break for immediate queue processing after each DataIN Sequence and/or
Response PDU has been sent.
Reported-by: Benjamin ESTRABAUD <be@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -3570,6 +3570,10 @@ check_rsp_state:
spin_lock_bh(&cmd->istate_lock);
cmd->i_state = ISTATE_SENT_STATUS;
spin_unlock_bh(&cmd->istate_lock);
+
+ if (atomic_read(&conn->check_immediate_queue))
+ return 1;
+
continue;
} else if (ret == 2) {
/* Still must send status,
@@ -3659,7 +3663,7 @@ check_rsp_state:
}
if (atomic_read(&conn->check_immediate_queue))
- break;
+ return 1;
}
return 0;
@@ -3703,12 +3707,15 @@ restart:
signal_pending(current))
goto transport_err;
+get_immediate:
ret = handle_immediate_queue(conn);
if (ret < 0)
goto transport_err;
ret = handle_response_queue(conn);
- if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+ if (ret == 1)
+ goto get_immediate;
+ else if (ret == -EAGAIN)
goto restart;
else if (ret < 0)
goto transport_err;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/iscsi-target-fix-immediate-queue-starvation-regression-with-datain.patch
queue-3.8/target-pscsi-fix-page-increment.patch
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