Re: [PATCH] SCSI: run queue if SCSI device queue isn't ready and queue is idle

[Bart Van Assche]

On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 00:28 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:08:20PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 15:52 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> > > index db9556662e27..1816dd8259b3 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> > > @@ -1967,6 +1967,8 @@ static bool scsi_mq_get_budget(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
> > >  out_put_device:
> > >  	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
> > >  out:
> > > +	if (atomic_read(&sdev->device_busy) == 0 && !scsi_device_blocked(sdev))
> > > +		blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(hctx, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY);
> > >  	return false;
> > >  }
> > 
> > This cannot work since multiple threads can call scsi_mq_get_budget()
> 
> That is exactly the way we are handling these cases before 0df21c86bdbf(scsi:
> implement .get_budget and .put_budget for blk-mq), so if it can't work,
> that is not fault of commit 0df21c86bdbf.
> 
> > concurrently and hence it can happen that none of them sees
> > atomic_read(&sdev->device_busy) == 0. BTW, the above patch is something I
> 
> If there is concurrent .get_budget(), one of them will see the counter
> becoming zero finally because each sdev->device_busy is inc/dec
> atomically. Or scsi_dev_queue_ready() return true.
> 
> Anyway, we need this patch to avoid possible regression. If you think
> there are bugs in blk-mq RESTART, just root cause and and fix it.

Hello Ming,

When I looked at the patch at the start of this thread for the first time I
got frustrated because I didn't see how this patch could fix the queue stall
I ran into myself. Today I started realizing that what Holger reported is
probably another issue than what I ran into myself. Since this patch by
itself looks now useful to me:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>

BTW, do you think the patch at the start of this thread also fixes the issue
that resulted in commit 826a70a08b12 ("SCSI: don't get target/host busy_count
in scsi_mq_get_budget()")? Do you think we still need that patch?

Bart.