[PATCH 2/3] blk-mq: improve warning for running a queue on the wrong CPU

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Sep 6 20:19:32 UTC 2016


From: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1620317

__blk_mq_run_hw_queue() currently warns if we are running the queue on a
CPU that isn't set in its mask. However, this can happen if a CPU is
being offlined, and the workqueue handling will place the work on CPU0
instead. Improve the warning so that it only triggers if the batch cpu
in the hardware queue is currently online.  If it triggers for that
case, then it's indicative of a flow problem in blk-mq, so we want to
retain it for that case.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0e87e58bf60edb6bb28e493c7a143f41b091a5e5)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
 block/blk-mq.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 59f7c46..1dfa93b 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -748,11 +748,12 @@ static void __blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 	struct list_head *dptr;
 	int queued;
 
-	WARN_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), hctx->cpumask));
-
 	if (unlikely(test_bit(BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED, &hctx->state)))
 		return;
 
+	WARN_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), hctx->cpumask) &&
+		cpu_online(hctx->next_cpu));
+
 	hctx->run++;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.7.4





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