From 0a30288da1aec914e158c2d7a3482a85f632750f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:24:32 -0400 Subject: 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 Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de Fixes: add703fda981 ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count") Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-mq.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'block') 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)); -- cgit v1.2.3