commit 33391eecd6 upstream.
We ran into an issue where a production workload would randomly grind to
a halt and not continue until the pending IO had timed out. This turned
out to be a complicated interaction between queue freezing and polled
IO:
1) You have an application that does polled IO. At any point in time,
there may be polled IO pending.
2) You have a monitoring application that issues a passthrough command,
which is marked with side effects such that it needs to freeze the
queue.
3) Passthrough command is started, which calls blk_freeze_queue_start()
on the device. At this point the queue is marked frozen, and any
attempt to enter the queue will fail (for non-blocking) or block.
4) Now the driver calls blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(), which will return
when the queue is quiesced and pending IO has completed.
5) The pending IO is polled IO, but any attempt to poll IO through the
normal iocb_bio_iopoll() -> bio_poll() will fail when it gets to
bio_queue_enter() as the queue is frozen. Rather than poll and
complete IO, the polling threads will sit in a tight loop attempting
to poll, but failing to enter the queue to do so.
The end result is that progress for either application will be stalled
until all pending polled IO has timed out. This causes obvious huge
latency issues for the application doing polled IO, but also long delays
for passthrough command.
Fix this by treating queue enter for polled IO just like we do for
timeouts. This allows quick quiesce of the queue as we still poll and
complete this IO, while still disallowing queueing up new IO.
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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