Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 5 authors, 2021-07-07

RE: [bug report] shared tags causes IO hang and performance drop

From: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Date: 2021-04-14 13:59:15
Also in: linux-scsi
Subsystem: scsi subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: "James E.J. Bottomley", "Martin K. Petersen", Linus Torvalds

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I tried both - 5.12.0-rc1 and 5.11.0-rc2+ and there is a same
behavior.
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Let me also check  megaraid_sas and see if anything generic or this is
a special case of scsi_debug.
As I mentioned, it could be one generic issue wrt. SCHED_RESTART.
shared tags might have to restart all hctx since all share same tags.
Ming - I tried many combination on MR shared host tag driver but there is
no single instance of IO hang.
I will keep trying, but when I look at scsi_debug driver code I found
below odd settings in scsi_debug driver.
can_queue of adapter is set to 128 but queue_depth of sdev is set to 255.

If I apply below patch, scsi_debug driver's hang is also resolved. Ideally
sdev->queue depth cannot exceed shost->can_queue.
Not sure why cmd_per_lun is 255 in scsi_debug driver which can easily
exceed can_queue.  I will simulate something similar in MR driver and see
how it behaves w.r.t IO hang issue.
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c
index 70165be10f00..dded762540ee 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static const char *sdebug_version_date = "20200710";
  */
 #define SDEBUG_CANQUEUE_WORDS  3       /* a WORD is bits in a long */
 #define SDEBUG_CANQUEUE  (SDEBUG_CANQUEUE_WORDS * BITS_PER_LONG)
-#define DEF_CMD_PER_LUN  255
+#define DEF_CMD_PER_LUN  SDEBUG_CANQUEUE

 /* UA - Unit Attention; SA - Service Action; SSU - Start Stop Unit */
 #define F_D_IN                 1       /* Data-in command (e.g. READ) */
@@ -7558,6 +7558,7 @@ static int sdebug_driver_probe(struct device *dev)
        sdbg_host = to_sdebug_host(dev);

        sdebug_driver_template.can_queue = sdebug_max_queue;
+       sdebug_driver_template.cmd_per_lun = sdebug_max_queue;
        if (!sdebug_clustering)
                sdebug_driver_template.dma_boundary = PAGE_SIZE - 1;

Thanks,
Ming

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