Re: [PATCH 3/3] nvme-pci: use queue close instead of queue freeze

From: jianchao.wang
Date: Thu Sep 06 2018 - 10:19:09 EST




On 09/06/2018 09:07 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 09:28:46AM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
>> Hi Ming
>>
>> On 09/06/2018 06:09 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
>>> nvme_dev_add() still may call freeze & unfreeze queue, so your patch
>>> can't avoid draining queue completely here.
>>
>> Yes, I know this. We still need to freeze queue when update nr_hw_queues.
>> But we move forward a step at least. :)
>> We don't need to drain request queue in normal case of nvme_reset_work.
>
> It is hard to say who is the normal case. In case of CPU hotplug, it is quite
> easy to trigger updating nr_hw_queues.
>
>>
>> As for updating nr_hw_queues, we could try some other method on it next.
>
> The thing is that draining queue may be inevitable inside reset work
> function because of updating nr_hw_queues, that means the approach in
> this patchset is just a partial solution
>
> Or it may not make sense to do that because we may never remove the draining
> queue in the code path of updating nr_hw_queues.
>
> Given they belong to same issue, I suggest to solve them all.

I still think if just prevent new IO, freeze queue is over-kill.

With respect to update nr_hw_queues, we could try to take the bios down from the
queued requests as the blk_steal_bios. Then re-issue these bios after updating the
nr_hw_queues.

Thanks
Jianchao

>
> Thanks,
> Ming
>
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