tree ef6e1821809e258e4d35f332928fe300141c2cc0
parent 8ef22dc4a7cbef5870e612edfbf9cd058ddaaa50
author Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com> 1647570401 +0900
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 1647570703 -0600

block: limit request dispatch loop duration

When IO requests are made continuously and the target block device
handles requests faster than request arrival, the request dispatch loop
keeps on repeating to dispatch the arriving requests very long time,
more than a minute. Since the loop runs as a workqueue worker task, the
very long loop duration triggers workqueue watchdog timeout and BUG [1].

To avoid the very long loop duration, break the loop periodically. When
opportunity to dispatch requests still exists, check need_resched(). If
need_resched() returns true, the dispatch loop already consumed its time
slice, then reschedule the dispatch work and break the loop. With heavy
IO load, need_resched() does not return true for 20~30 seconds. To cover
such case, check time spent in the dispatch loop with jiffies. If more
than 1 second is spent, reschedule the dispatch work and break the loop.

[1]

[  609.691437] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=10 node=1 flags=0x0 nice=-20 stuck for 35s!
[  609.701820] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
[  609.707915] workqueue events: flags=0x0
[  609.712615]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2
[  609.712626]     pending: drm_fb_helper_damage_work [drm_kms_helper]
[  609.712687] workqueue events_freezable: flags=0x4
[  609.732943]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2
[  609.732952]     pending: pci_pme_list_scan
[  609.732968] workqueue events_power_efficient: flags=0x80
[  609.751947]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2
[  609.751955]     pending: neigh_managed_work
[  609.752018] workqueue kblockd: flags=0x18
[  609.769480]   pwq 21: cpus=10 node=1 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=3/256 refcnt=4
[  609.769488]     in-flight: 1020:blk_mq_run_work_fn
[  609.769498]     pending: blk_mq_timeout_work, blk_mq_run_work_fn
[  609.769744] pool 21: cpus=10 node=1 flags=0x0 nice=-20 hung=35s workers=2 idle: 67
[  639.899730] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=10 node=1 flags=0x0 nice=-20 stuck for 66s!
[  639.909513] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
[  639.915404] workqueue events: flags=0x0
[  639.920197]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2
[  639.920215]     pending: drm_fb_helper_damage_work [drm_kms_helper]
[  639.920365] workqueue kblockd: flags=0x18
[  639.939932]   pwq 21: cpus=10 node=1 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=3/256 refcnt=4
[  639.939942]     in-flight: 1020:blk_mq_run_work_fn
[  639.939955]     pending: blk_mq_timeout_work, blk_mq_run_work_fn
[  639.940212] pool 21: cpus=10 node=1 flags=0x0 nice=-20 hung=66s workers=2 idle: 67

Fixes: 6e6fcbc27e778 ("blk-mq: support batching dispatch in case of io")
Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20220310091649.zypaem5lkyfadymg@shindev/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220318022641.133484-1-shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>