2017-06-28 12:57:29

by Dongli Zhang

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Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from per-queue persistent grants

This patch partially reverts 3df0e50 ("xen/blkfront: pseudo support for
multi hardware queues/rings"). The xen-blkfront queue/ring might hang due
to grants allocation failure in the situation when gnttab_free_head is
almost empty while many persistent grants are reserved for this queue/ring.

As persistent grants management was per-queue since 73716df ("xen/blkfront:
make persistent grants pool per-queue"), we should always allocate from
persistent grants first.

Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <[email protected]>

---
Changed since v1:
* use "max_grefs - rinfo->persistent_gnts_c" as callback argument

---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 3945963..4544a1c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
* existing persistent grants, or if we have to get new grants,
* as there are not sufficiently many free.
*/
+ bool new_persistent_gnts = false;
struct scatterlist *sg;
int num_sg, max_grefs, num_grant;

@@ -724,19 +725,21 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
*/
max_grefs += INDIRECT_GREFS(max_grefs);

- /*
- * We have to reserve 'max_grefs' grants because persistent
- * grants are shared by all rings.
- */
- if (max_grefs > 0)
- if (gnttab_alloc_grant_references(max_grefs, &setup.gref_head) < 0) {
+ /* Check if we have enough persistent grants to allocate a requests */
+ if (rinfo->persistent_gnts_c < max_grefs) {
+ new_persistent_gnts = true;
+
+ if (gnttab_alloc_grant_references(
+ max_grefs - rinfo->persistent_gnts_c,
+ &setup.gref_head) < 0) {
gnttab_request_free_callback(
&rinfo->callback,
blkif_restart_queue_callback,
rinfo,
- max_grefs);
+ max_grefs - rinfo->persistent_gnts_c);
return 1;
}
+ }

/* Fill out a communications ring structure. */
id = blkif_ring_get_request(rinfo, req, &ring_req);
@@ -837,7 +840,7 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
if (unlikely(require_extra_req))
rinfo->shadow[extra_id].req = *extra_ring_req;

- if (max_grefs > 0)
+ if (new_persistent_gnts)
gnttab_free_grant_references(setup.gref_head);

return 0;
--
2.7.4


2017-06-28 15:49:40

by Roger Pau Monne

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from per-queue persistent grants

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:57:28PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> This patch partially reverts 3df0e50 ("xen/blkfront: pseudo support for
> multi hardware queues/rings"). The xen-blkfront queue/ring might hang due
> to grants allocation failure in the situation when gnttab_free_head is
> almost empty while many persistent grants are reserved for this queue/ring.
>
> As persistent grants management was per-queue since 73716df ("xen/blkfront:
> make persistent grants pool per-queue"), we should always allocate from
> persistent grants first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monn? <[email protected]>

Thanks.

2017-07-19 07:49:48

by Dongli Zhang

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from per-queue persistent grants

Hi Konrad,

In addition to Junxiao's patch on xen-blkfront, would you please help merge this
to mainline as well?

Thank you very much!

Dongli Zhang

On 06/28/2017 11:34 PM, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:57:28PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
>> This patch partially reverts 3df0e50 ("xen/blkfront: pseudo support for
>> multi hardware queues/rings"). The xen-blkfront queue/ring might hang due
>> to grants allocation failure in the situation when gnttab_free_head is
>> almost empty while many persistent grants are reserved for this queue/ring.
>>
>> As persistent grants management was per-queue since 73716df ("xen/blkfront:
>> make persistent grants pool per-queue"), we should always allocate from
>> persistent grants first.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monn? <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks.
>