[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] dm: support bio polling

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:26:15AM +0800, JeffleXu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/21/21 10:04 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 07:33:34PM +0800, JeffleXu wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/18/21 10:39 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> >>> From 47e523b9ee988317369eaadb96826323cd86819e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>> From: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
> >>> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:13:46 +0800
> >>> Subject: [RFC PATCH V3 3/3] dm: support bio polling
> >>>
> >>> Support bio(REQ_POLLED) polling in the following approach:
> >>>
> >>> 1) only support io polling on normal READ/WRITE, and other abnormal IOs
> >>> still fallback on IRQ mode, so the target io is exactly inside the dm
> >>> io.
> >>>
> >>> 2) hold one refcnt on io->io_count after submitting this dm bio with
> >>> REQ_POLLED
> >>>
> >>> 3) support dm native bio splitting, any dm io instance associated with
> >>> current bio will be added into one list which head is bio->bi_end_io
> >>> which will be recovered before ending this bio
> >>>
> >>> 4) implement .poll_bio() callback, call bio_poll() on the single target
> >>> bio inside the dm io which is retrieved via bio->bi_bio_drv_data; call
> >>> dec_pending() after the target io is done in .poll_bio()
> >>>
> >>> 4) enable QUEUE_FLAG_POLL if all underlying queues enable QUEUE_FLAG_POLL,
> >>> which is based on Jeffle's previous patch.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> V3:
> >>> 	- covers all comments from Jeffle
> >>> 	- fix corner cases when polling on abnormal ios
> >>>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> One bug and one performance issue, though I haven't investigated deep
> >> for both.
> >>
> >>
> >> kernel base: based on Jens' for-next, applying Christoph and Leiming's
> >> patchset.
> >>
> >>
> >> 1. One bug when there's DM device stack, e.g., dm-linear upon another
> >> dm-linear. Can be reproduced by following steps:
> >>
> >> ```
> >> $ sudo dmsetup create tmpdev --table '0 2097152 linear /dev/nvme0n1 0'
> >>
> >> $ cat tmp.table
> >> 0 2097152 linear /dev/mapper/tmpdev 0
> >> 2097152 2097152 linear /dev/nvme0n1 0
> >>
> >> $ cat tmp.table | dmsetup create testdev
> >>
> >> $ fio -name=test -ioengine=io_uring -iodepth=128 -numjobs=1 -thread
> >> -rw=randread -direct=1 -bs=4k -time_based -runtime=10 -cpus_allowed=6
> >> -filename=/dev/mapper/testdev -hipri=1
> >> ```
> >>
> >>
> >> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc01a6208
> >> #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
> >> #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
> >> PGD 39740c067 P4D 39740c067 PUD 39740e067 PMD 1035db067 PTE 1ddf6f061
> >> Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP PTI
> >> CPU: 6 PID: 5899 Comm: fio Tainted: G S
> >> 5.13.0-0.1.git.81bcdc3.al7.x86_64 #1
> >> Hardware name: Inventec     K900G3-10G/B900G3, BIOS A2.20 06/23/2017
> >> RIP: 0010:dm_submit_bio+0x171/0x3e0 [dm_mod]
> > 
> > It has been fixed in my local repo:
> > 
> > @@ -1608,6 +1649,7 @@ static void init_clone_info(struct clone_info *ci, struct mapped_device *md,
> >         ci->map = map;
> >         ci->io = alloc_io(md, bio);
> >         ci->sector = bio->bi_iter.bi_sector;
> > +       ci->submit_as_polled = false;
> > 
> 
> It doesn't work in my test environment. Actually the following fix
> should be applied.
> 
> 
> @@ -1390,6 +1403,8 @@ static int clone_bio(struct dm_target_io *tio,
> struct bio *bio,
>         if (bio_integrity(bio))
>                 bio_integrity_trim(clone);
> 
> +       clone->bi_opf &= ~REQ_SAVED_END_IO;
> +

This change is good, but it shouldn't fix the panic except for nested
device map, I will fold into V3.

>         return 0;
>  }
> 
> 
> The rationale is that, REQ_SAVED_END_IO should be cleared once the bio
> *passes through* the device stack layer. Or the cloned bio for next
> layer will inherit REQ_SAVED_END_IO flag, in which case
> 'cloned_bio->bi_end_io' (actually acts as the hlist head) won't be
> initialized in dm_setup_polled_io(), and thus it gets crashed when
> trying to insert into this hash list in __split_and_process_bio().

'cloned_bio' can't reach dm_submit_bio() if it isn't one DM bio.


Thanks,
Ming