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Message-ID: <6eae3879-f9d2-4fe3-96b1-c9e2aa939264@grimberg.me>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:36:13 +0200
From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To: "brookxu.cn" <brookxu.cn@...il.com>, kbusch@...nel.org, axboe@...nel.dk,
hch@....de
Cc: linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix reconnection fail due to reserved tag
allocation
On 28/02/2024 11:14, brookxu.cn wrote:
> From: Chunguang Xu <chunguang.xu@...pee.com>
>
> We found a issue on production environment while using NVMe
> over RDMA, admin_q reconnect failed forever while remote
> target and network is ok. After dig into it, we found it
> may caused by a ABBA deadlock due to tag allocation. In my
> case, the tag was hold by a keep alive request waiting
> inside admin_q, as we quiesced admin_q while reset ctrl,
> so the request maked as idle and will not process before
> reset success. As fabric_q shares tagset with admin_q,
> while reconnect remote target, we need a tag for connect
> command, but the only one reserved tag was held by keep
> alive command which waiting inside admin_q. As a result,
> we failed to reconnect admin_q forever.
>
> In order to workaround this issue, I think we should not
> retry keep alive request while controller reconnecting,
> as we have stopped keep alive while resetting controller,
> and will start it again while init finish, so it maybe ok
> to drop it.
This is the wrong fix.
First we should note that this is a regression caused by:
ed01fee283a0 ("nvme-fabrics: only reserve a single tag")
Then, you need to restore reserving two tags for the admin
tagset.
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