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: 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: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
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