nvme: check IO start time when deciding to defer KA
authorUday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Thu, 25 May 2023 18:22:03 +0000 (12:22 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:12:36 +0000 (11:12 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 774a9636514764ddc0d072ae0d1d1c01a47e6ddd ]

When a command completes, we set a flag which will skip sending a
keep alive at the next run of nvme_keep_alive_work when TBKAS is on.
However, if the command was submitted long ago, it's possible that
the controller may have also restarted its keep alive timer (as a
result of receiving the command) long ago. The following trace
demonstrates the issue, assuming TBKAS is on and KATO = 8 for
simplicity:

1. t = 0: submit I/O commands A, B, C, D, E
2. t = 0.5: commands A, B, C, D, E reach controller, restart its keep
            alive timer
3. t = 1: A completes
4. t = 2: run nvme_keep_alive_work, see recent completion, do nothing
5. t = 3: B completes
6. t = 4: run nvme_keep_alive_work, see recent completion, do nothing
7. t = 5: C completes
8. t = 6: run nvme_keep_alive_work, see recent completion, do nothing
9. t = 7: D completes
10. t = 8: run nvme_keep_alive_work, see recent completion, do nothing
11. t = 9: E completes

At this point, 8.5 seconds have passed without restarting the
controller's keep alive timer, so the controller will detect a keep
alive timeout.

Fix this by checking the IO start time when deciding to defer sending a
keep alive command. Only set comp_seen if the command started after the
most recent run of nvme_keep_alive_work. With this change, the
completions of B, C, and D will not set comp_seen and the run of
nvme_keep_alive_work at t = 4 will send a keep alive.

Reported-by: Costa Sapuntzakis <costa@purestorage.com>
Reported-by: Randy Jennings <randyj@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/nvme/host/core.c
drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h

index a97f2f2..15eb2ee 100644 (file)
@@ -395,7 +395,16 @@ void nvme_complete_rq(struct request *req)
        trace_nvme_complete_rq(req);
        nvme_cleanup_cmd(req);
 
-       if (ctrl->kas)
+       /*
+        * Completions of long-running commands should not be able to
+        * defer sending of periodic keep alives, since the controller
+        * may have completed processing such commands a long time ago
+        * (arbitrarily close to command submission time).
+        * req->deadline - req->timeout is the command submission time
+        * in jiffies.
+        */
+       if (ctrl->kas &&
+           req->deadline - req->timeout >= ctrl->ka_last_check_time)
                ctrl->comp_seen = true;
 
        switch (nvme_decide_disposition(req)) {
@@ -1235,6 +1244,7 @@ static enum rq_end_io_ret nvme_keep_alive_end_io(struct request *rq,
                return RQ_END_IO_NONE;
        }
 
+       ctrl->ka_last_check_time = jiffies;
        ctrl->comp_seen = false;
        spin_lock_irqsave(&ctrl->lock, flags);
        if (ctrl->state == NVME_CTRL_LIVE ||
@@ -1253,6 +1263,8 @@ static void nvme_keep_alive_work(struct work_struct *work)
        bool comp_seen = ctrl->comp_seen;
        struct request *rq;
 
+       ctrl->ka_last_check_time = jiffies;
+
        if ((ctrl->ctratt & NVME_CTRL_ATTR_TBKAS) && comp_seen) {
                dev_dbg(ctrl->device,
                        "reschedule traffic based keep-alive timer\n");
index 3f82de6..2aa514c 100644 (file)
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ struct nvme_ctrl {
        struct delayed_work ka_work;
        struct delayed_work failfast_work;
        struct nvme_command ka_cmd;
+       unsigned long ka_last_check_time;
        struct work_struct fw_act_work;
        unsigned long events;