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Message-ID: <34a6208e-2802-8e3f-1a4d-92919407e7a8@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 09:12:30 +0800
From: yangxingui <yangxingui@...wei.com>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>, Yihang Li <liyihang9@...wei.com>,
<martin.petersen@...cle.com>, <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC: <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<linuxarm@...wei.com>, <liuyonglong@...wei.com>, <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>,
<linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Add host_tagset_enable module param
for v3 hw
On 2025/3/31 15:43, John Garry wrote:
> On 29/03/2025 09:49, yangxingui wrote:
>> Hi,John
>>
>> On 2025/3/29 16:50, John Garry wrote:
>>> On 29/03/2025 07:32, Yihang Li wrote:
>>>
>>> +
>>>
>>>> From: Xingui Yang<yangxingui@...wei.com>
>>>>
>>>> After driver exposes all HW queues and application submits IO to
>>>> multiple
>>>> queues in parallel, if NCQ and non-NCQ commands are mixed to sata disk,
>>>> ata_qc_defer() causes non-NCQ commands to be requeued and possibly
>>>> repeated
>>>> forever.
>>>
>>> I don't think that it is a good idea to mask out bugs with module
>>> parameters.
>>>
>>> Was this the same libata/libsas issue reported some time ago?
>>
>> Yeah,related to this issue: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/
>> eef1e927-c9b2-c61d-7f48-92e65d8b0418@...wei.com/
>>
>> And, Niklas tried to help fix this problem: https://lore.kernel.org/
>> linux-scsi/ZynmfyDA9R-lrW71@...en/
>>
>> Considering that there is no formal solution yet. And our users rarely
>> use SATA disks and SAS disks together on a single machine. For this
>> reason, they can flexibly turn off the exposure of multiple queues in
>> the scenario of using only SATA disks. In addition, it is also
>> convenient to conduct performance comparison tests to expose multiple
>> hardware queues and single queues.
>>
>
> The change in this series does not even solve the issues, as:
> - you do not guarantee no SAS/SATA mix without that module param enabled
> - the driver still uses managed interrupts in both cases, so with
> disabling host_tagset you are now exposed to CPU hotplug issue of IO
> being in-flight when HW queue interrupt is shutdown
Yes, there will be such problems.
>
> And pm8001 driver will have the same issue, so we need to find a proper
> fix.
>
> Let me consider this issue more.
OK.
Thanks,
Xingui
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