linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] blk-mq: release scheduler resource when request complete

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Date:   Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:45:53 +0800
From:   Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, hch@....de, chuck.lever@...cle.com
Cc:     bvanassche@....org, cel@...nel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zhouchengming@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blk-mq: release scheduler resource when request
 complete

On 2023/8/13 23:34, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/13/23 9:23 AM, chengming.zhou@...ux.dev wrote:
>> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
>>
>> Chuck reported [1] a IO hang problem on NFS exports that reside on SATA
>> devices and bisected to commit 615939a2ae73 ("blk-mq: defer to the normal
>> submission path for post-flush requests").
>>
>> We analysed the IO hang problem, found there are two postflush requests
>> are waiting for each other.
>>
>> The first postflush request completed the REQ_FSEQ_DATA sequence, so go to
>> the REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH sequence and added in the flush pending list, but
>> failed to blk_kick_flush() because of the second postflush request which
>> is inflight waiting in scheduler queue.
>>
>> The second postflush waiting in scheduler queue can't be dispatched because
>> the first postflush hasn't released scheduler resource even though it has
>> completed by itself.
>>
>> Fix it by releasing scheduler resource when the first postflush request
>> completed, so the second postflush can be dispatched and completed, then
>> make blk_kick_flush() succeed.
> 
> Thanks, applied with a bit of commit message massaging and adding a
> comment for the newly added WARN_ON_ONCE().
> 

Ok, thanks!