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From: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
To: yangxingui <yangxingui@huawei.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com
Subject: Re: [bug report] block: Non-NCQ commands will never be executed while fio is continuously running
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 22:21:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <922e3d52-9567-4371-9a43-6d51f716a370@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eef1e927-c9b2-c61d-7f48-92e65d8b0418@huawei.com>

On 9/9/24 22:10, yangxingui wrote:
> Hello axboe & John,
> 
> After the driver exposes all HW queues to the block layer, non-NCQ 
> commands will never be executed while fio is continuously running, such 
> as a smartctl command.
> 
> The cause of the problem is that other hctx used by the NCQ command is 
> still active and can continue to issue NCQ commands to the sata disk.
> And the pio command keeps retrying in its corresponding hctx because 
> qc_defer() always returns true.
> 
> hctx0: ncq, pio, ncq
> hctx1:ncq, ncq, ...
> ...
> hctxn: ncq, ncq, ...
> 
> Is there any good solution for this?

SATA devices are single queue so how can you have multiple queues ?
What adapter are you using ?

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research


  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-09 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-09 13:10 yangxingui
2024-09-09 13:21 ` Damien Le Moal [this message]
2024-09-10  1:09   ` yangxingui
2024-09-10  4:45     ` Damien Le Moal
2024-09-10  6:34       ` yangxingui
2024-09-10 11:27         ` Niklas Cassel
2024-09-10 22:38           ` Damien Le Moal
2024-09-11  9:41             ` yangxingui
2024-09-19 12:26             ` Yu Kuai
2024-09-19 14:14               ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-31 14:12                 ` Niklas Cassel
2024-11-01  2:17                   ` yangxingui

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