Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-blk: fix hw_queue stopped on arbitrary error

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:35 PM Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:21:18 +0800
> Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:38 PM Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Since nobody else is going to restart our hw_queue for us, the
> > > blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues() is in virtblk_done() is not sufficient
> > > necessarily sufficient to ensure that the queue will get started again.
> > > In case of global resource outage (-ENOMEM because mapping failure,
> > > because of swiotlb full) our virtqueue may be empty and we can get
> > > stuck with a stopped hw_queue.
> > >
> > > Let us not stop the queue on arbitrary errors, but only on -EONSPC which
> > > indicates a full virtqueue, where the hw_queue is guaranteed to get
> > > started by virtblk_done() before when it makes sense to carry on
> > > submitting requests. Let us also remove a stale comment.
> >
> > The generic solution may be to stop queue only when there is any
> > in-flight request
> > not completed.
> >
>
> I think this is a pretty close to that. The queue is stopped only on
> ENOSPC, which means virtqueue is full.
>
> > Checking -ENOMEM may not be enough, given -EIO can be returned from
> > virtqueue_add()
> > too in case of dma map failure.
>
> I'm not checking on -ENOMEM. So the queue would not be stopped on EIO.
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something In any case, please have another
> look at the diff, and if your concerns persist please help me understand.

Looks I misread the patch, and this patch is fine:

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
Ming Lei