Re: Question on handling managed IRQs when hotplugging CPUs

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 29/01/2019 15:44, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 03:25:48AM -0800, John Garry wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question on $subject which I hope you can shed some light on.
>>
>> According to commit c5cb83bb337c25 ("genirq/cpuhotplug: Handle managed
>> IRQs on CPU hotplug"), if we offline the last CPU in a managed IRQ
>> affinity mask, the IRQ is shutdown.
>>
>> The reasoning is that this IRQ is thought to be associated with a
>> specific queue on a MQ device, and the CPUs in the IRQ affinity mask are
>> the same CPUs associated with the queue. So, if no CPU is using the
>> queue, then no need for the IRQ.
>>
>> However how does this handle scenario of last CPU in IRQ affinity mask
>> being offlined while IO associated with queue is still in flight?
>>
>> Or if we make the decision to use queue associated with the current CPU,
>> and then that CPU (being the last CPU online in the queue's IRQ
>> afffinity mask) goes offline and we finish the delivery with another CPU?
>>
>> In these cases, when the IO completes, it would not be serviced and timeout.
>>
>> I have actually tried this on my arm64 system and I see IO timeouts.
>
> Hm, we used to freeze the queues with CPUHP_BLK_MQ_PREPARE callback,
> which would reap all outstanding commands before the CPU and IRQ are
> taken offline. That was removed with commit 4b855ad37194f ("blk-mq:
> Create hctx for each present CPU"). It sounds like we should bring
> something like that back, but make more fine grain to the per-cpu context.
>

Seems reasonable. But we would need it to deal with drivers where they 
only expose a single queue to BLK MQ, but use many queues internally. I 
think megaraid sas does this, for example.

I would also be slightly concerned with commands being issued from the 
driver unknown to blk mq, like SCSI TMF.

Thanks,
John

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