linux/block
Tejun Heo 0a30288da1 blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe
blk-mq uses percpu_ref for its usage counter which tracks the number
of in-flight commands and used to synchronously drain the queue on
freeze.  percpu_ref shutdown takes measureable wallclock time as it
involves a sched RCU grace period.  This means that draining a blk-mq
takes measureable wallclock time.  One would think that this shouldn't
matter as queue shutdown should be a rare event which takes place
asynchronously w.r.t. userland.

Unfortunately, SCSI probing involves synchronously setting up and then
tearing down a lot of request_queues back-to-back for non-existent
LUNs.  This means that SCSI probing may take more than ten seconds
when scsi-mq is used.

This will be properly fixed by implementing a mechanism to keep
q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode till genhd registration; however,
that involves rather big updates to percpu_ref which is difficult to
apply late in the devel cycle (v3.17-rc6 at the moment).  As a
stop-gap measure till the proper fix can be implemented in the next
cycle, this patch introduces __percpu_ref_kill_expedited() and makes
blk_mq_freeze_queue() use it.  This is heavy-handed but should work
for testing the experimental SCSI blk-mq implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de
Fixes: add703fda9 ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count")
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-24 08:29:36 -06:00
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partitions
bio-integrity.c
bio.c
blk-cgroup.c
blk-cgroup.h
blk-core.c
blk-exec.c
blk-flush.c
blk-integrity.c
blk-ioc.c
blk-iopoll.c
blk-lib.c
blk-map.c
blk-merge.c
blk-mq-cpu.c
blk-mq-cpumap.c
blk-mq-sysfs.c
blk-mq-tag.c
blk-mq-tag.h
blk-mq.c blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe 2014-09-24 08:29:36 -06:00
blk-mq.h
blk-settings.c
blk-softirq.c
blk-sysfs.c
blk-tag.c
blk-throttle.c
blk-timeout.c
blk.h
bounce.c
bsg-lib.c
bsg.c
cfq-iosched.c
cmdline-parser.c
compat_ioctl.c
deadline-iosched.c
elevator.c
genhd.c
ioctl.c
ioprio.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.iosched
Makefile
noop-iosched.c
partition-generic.c
scsi_ioctl.c