Commit c7275ce6 authored by Uday Shankar's avatar Uday Shankar Committed by Keith Busch

nvme: improve handling of long keep alives

Upon keep alive completion, nvme_keep_alive_work is scheduled with the
same delay every time. If keep alive commands are completing slowly,
this may cause a keep alive timeout. The following trace illustrates the
issue, taking KATO = 8 and TBKAS off for simplicity:

1. t = 0: run nvme_keep_alive_work, send keep alive
2. t = ε: keep alive reaches controller, controller restarts its keep
          alive timer
3. t = 4: host receives keep alive completion, schedules
          nvme_keep_alive_work with delay 4
4. t = 8: run nvme_keep_alive_work, send keep alive

Here, a keep alive having RTT of 4 causes a delay of at least 8 - ε
between the controller receiving successive keep alives. With ε small,
the controller is likely to detect a keep alive timeout.

Fix this by calculating the RTT of the keep alive command, and adjusting
the scheduling delay of the next keep alive work accordingly.
Reported-by: default avatarCosta Sapuntzakis <costa@purestorage.com>
Reported-by: default avatarRandy Jennings <randyj@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarUday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
parent 774a9636
......@@ -1199,6 +1199,20 @@ static enum rq_end_io_ret nvme_keep_alive_end_io(struct request *rq,
struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl = rq->end_io_data;
unsigned long flags;
bool startka = false;
unsigned long rtt = jiffies - (rq->deadline - rq->timeout);
unsigned long delay = nvme_keep_alive_work_period(ctrl);
/*
* Subtract off the keepalive RTT so nvme_keep_alive_work runs
* at the desired frequency.
*/
if (rtt <= delay) {
delay -= rtt;
} else {
dev_warn(ctrl->device, "long keepalive RTT (%u ms)\n",
jiffies_to_msecs(rtt));
delay = 0;
}
blk_mq_free_request(rq);
......@@ -1217,7 +1231,7 @@ static enum rq_end_io_ret nvme_keep_alive_end_io(struct request *rq,
startka = true;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctrl->lock, flags);
if (startka)
nvme_queue_keep_alive_work(ctrl);
queue_delayed_work(nvme_wq, &ctrl->ka_work, delay);
return RQ_END_IO_NONE;
}
......
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