linux-kernel - Re: [5.0-rc5 regression] "scsi: kill off the legacy IO path" causes 5 minute delay during boot on Sun Blade 2500

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Date:   Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:05:34 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux SPARC Kernel Mailing List <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [5.0-rc5 regression] "scsi: kill off the legacy IO path" causes 5
 minute delay during boot on Sun Blade 2500

On 2/10/19 8:44 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 10:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 7:19 PM James Bottomley
>> <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
> [...]
>>> I think the reason for this is that the block mq path doesn't feed
>>> the kernel entropy pool correctly, hence the need to install an
>>> entropy gatherer for systems that don't have other good random
>>> number sources.
>>
>> That does sound plausible, I admit I didn't even consider the
>> possibility that the old block I/O path also was an entropy source.
> 
> In theory, the new one should be as well since the rotational entropy
> collector is on the SCSI completion path.   I'd seen the same problem
> but had assumed it was something someone had done to our internal
> entropy pool and thus hadn't bisected it.

The difference is that the old stack included ADD_RANDOM by default,
so this check:

	if (blk_queue_add_random(q))
		add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);

in scsi_end_request() would be true, and we'd add the randomness. For
sd, it seems to set it just fine for non-rotational drives. Could this
be because other devices don't? Maybe the below makes a difference.


diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 6d65ac584eba..60e029911755 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1881,6 +1881,7 @@ struct request_queue *scsi_mq_alloc_queue(struct scsi_device *sdev)
 	sdev->request_queue->queuedata = sdev;
 	__scsi_init_queue(sdev->host, sdev->request_queue);
 	blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH, sdev->request_queue);
+	blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, sdev->request_queue);
 	return sdev->request_queue;
 }
 

-- 
Jens Axboe