linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Fix shost->cmd_per_lun calculation in scsi_add_host_with

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 21:43:04 +0000
From:   Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
CC:     KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "wei.liu@...nel.org" <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        "jejb@...ux.ibm.com" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "ming.lei@...hat.com" <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        "bvanassche@....org" <bvanassche@....org>,
        "john.garry@...wei.com" <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Fix shost->cmd_per_lun calculation in
 scsi_add_host_with_dma()

> From: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2:28 PM
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
> 
> > Regarding this patch, I'm not sure if it's a "workaround": if it's
> > incorrect to set a bigger-than-SHRT_MAX scsi_driver.can_queue value,
> > probably we should change scsi_driver.can_queue from "int" to "u16"?
> 
> > BTW, I guess the "cmd_per_lun" should also be "u16" rather than
> > "short"?
> 
> I agree that it would be nice to get all this cleaned up. Several,
> somewhat peculiar, 25-year old design choices.
> 
> cmd_per_lun has traditionally been in the ballpark of low hundreds,
> can_queue typically in the low thousands. And the block layer currently
> caps at ~10K. Happy to take patches fixing this up, although I am a bit
> worried about how much churn it will generate.

Thanks for the explanation!
 
> That said, I do think that cleaning this up is somewhat orthogonal to
> the issue with storvsc. I suspect that allowing a huge amount of
> concurrent outstanding commands is going to be detrimental to
> performance for most workloads. And from that perspective I think that
> the short->int fix, while valid given the type discrepancy, is just
> treating the symptom.

Agreed.
 
> Therefore I consider the short->int fix a workaround. And the proper fix
> involves looking closely at things are scaled in the storvsc case. Which
> I have noted that Michael is working on.

Agreed. My v1 actually tried to work around the storvsc driver instread. :-)