Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] block: cancel all throttled bios in del_gendisk()

From: Ming Lei
Date: Thu Jan 13 2022 - 22:06:01 EST


On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 04:46:18PM +0800, yukuai (C) wrote:
> 在 2022/01/12 11:05, Ming Lei 写道:
> > Hello Yu Kuai,
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 09:47:58PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> > > Throttled bios can't be issued after del_gendisk() is done, thus
> > > it's better to cancel them immediately rather than waiting for
> > > throttle is done.
> > >
> > > For example, if user thread is throttled with low bps while it's
> > > issuing large io, and the device is deleted. The user thread will
> > > wait for a long time for io to return.
> > >
> > > Noted this patch is mainly from revertion of commit 32e3374304c7
> > > ("blk-throttle: remove tg_drain_bios") and commit b77412372b68
> > > ("blk-throttle: remove blk_throtl_drain").
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > block/blk-throttle.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > block/blk-throttle.h | 2 ++
> > > block/genhd.c | 2 ++
> > > 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
> >
> > Just wondering why not take the built-in way in throtl_upgrade_state() for
> > canceling throttled bios? Something like the following, then we can avoid
> > to re-invent the wheel.
> >
> > block/blk-throttle.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > block/blk-throttle.h | 2 ++
> > block/genhd.c | 3 +++
> > 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
> > index cf7e20804f1b..17e56b2e44c4 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-throttle.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
> > @@ -1816,16 +1816,11 @@ static void throtl_upgrade_check(struct throtl_grp *tg)
> > throtl_upgrade_state(tg->td);
> > }
> > -static void throtl_upgrade_state(struct throtl_data *td)
> > +static void __throtl_cancel_bios(struct throtl_data *td)
> > {
> > struct cgroup_subsys_state *pos_css;
> > struct blkcg_gq *blkg;
> > - throtl_log(&td->service_queue, "upgrade to max");
> > - td->limit_index = LIMIT_MAX;
> > - td->low_upgrade_time = jiffies;
> > - td->scale = 0;
> > - rcu_read_lock();
> > blkg_for_each_descendant_post(blkg, pos_css, td->queue->root_blkg) {
> > struct throtl_grp *tg = blkg_to_tg(blkg);
> > struct throtl_service_queue *sq = &tg->service_queue;
> > @@ -1834,12 +1829,41 @@ static void throtl_upgrade_state(struct throtl_data *td)
> > throtl_select_dispatch(sq);
> > throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(sq, true);
> Hi, Ming Lei
>
> I'm confused that how can bios be canceled here?
> tg->iops and tg->bps stay untouched, how can throttled bios
> dispatch?

I thought that throttled bios will be canceled by 'tg->disptime = jiffies - 1;'
and the following dispatch schedule.

But looks it isn't enough, since tg_update_disptime() updates
->disptime. However,
this problem can be solved easily by not updating ->disptime in case that we are
canceling.

> > }
> > - rcu_read_unlock();
> > throtl_select_dispatch(&td->service_queue);
> > throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(&td->service_queue, true);
> > queue_work(kthrotld_workqueue, &td->dispatch_work);
> > }
> > +void blk_throtl_cancel_bios(struct request_queue *q)
> > +{
> > + struct cgroup_subsys_state *pos_css;
> > + struct blkcg_gq *blkg;
> > +
> > + rcu_read_lock();
> > + spin_lock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
> > + __throtl_cancel_bios(q->td);
> > + spin_unlock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
> > + rcu_read_unlock();
> > +
> > + blkg_for_each_descendant_post(blkg, pos_css, q->root_blkg)
> > + del_timer_sync(&blkg_to_tg(blkg)->service_queue.pending_timer);
> > + del_timer_sync(&q->td->service_queue.pending_timer);
>
> By the way, I think delete timer will end up io hung here if there are
> some bios still be throttled.

Firstly ->queue_lock is held by blk_throtl_cancel_bios(), so no new bios
will be throttled.

Also if we don't update ->disptime, any new bios throttled after releasing
->queue_lock will be dispatched soon.


Thanks,
Ming