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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-23 15:24:32 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-09-24 08:29:36 -0600
commit0a30288da1aec914e158c2d7a3482a85f632750f (patch)
tree748c41c772a551dd7c94d46770aadd8a06ec8013 /block
parent452b6361c4d9baf6940adb7b1316e0f386c39799 (diff)
blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe
blk-mq uses percpu_ref for its usage counter which tracks the number of in-flight commands and used to synchronously drain the queue on freeze. percpu_ref shutdown takes measureable wallclock time as it involves a sched RCU grace period. This means that draining a blk-mq takes measureable wallclock time. One would think that this shouldn't matter as queue shutdown should be a rare event which takes place asynchronously w.r.t. userland. Unfortunately, SCSI probing involves synchronously setting up and then tearing down a lot of request_queues back-to-back for non-existent LUNs. This means that SCSI probing may take more than ten seconds when scsi-mq is used. This will be properly fixed by implementing a mechanism to keep q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode till genhd registration; however, that involves rather big updates to percpu_ref which is difficult to apply late in the devel cycle (v3.17-rc6 at the moment). As a stop-gap measure till the proper fix can be implemented in the next cycle, this patch introduces __percpu_ref_kill_expedited() and makes blk_mq_freeze_queue() use it. This is heavy-handed but should work for testing the experimental SCSI blk-mq implementation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de Fixes: add703fda981 ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count") Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-mq.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index c88e6089746d..df8e1e09dd17 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -119,7 +119,16 @@ void blk_mq_freeze_queue(struct request_queue *q)
spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
if (freeze) {
- percpu_ref_kill(&q->mq_usage_counter);
+ /*
+ * XXX: Temporary kludge to work around SCSI blk-mq stall.
+ * SCSI synchronously creates and destroys many queues
+ * back-to-back during probe leading to lengthy stalls.
+ * This will be fixed by keeping ->mq_usage_counter in
+ * atomic mode until genhd registration, but, for now,
+ * let's work around using expedited synchronization.
+ */
+ __percpu_ref_kill_expedited(&q->mq_usage_counter);
+
blk_mq_run_queues(q, false);
}
wait_event(q->mq_freeze_wq, percpu_ref_is_zero(&q->mq_usage_counter));