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[v4,3/3] nvme: decouple basic ANA log page re-read support from native multipathing

Message ID 20210416235329.49234-4-snitzer@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series nvme: improve error handling and ana_state to work well with dm-multipath | expand

Commit Message

Mike Snitzer April 16, 2021, 11:53 p.m. UTC
Whether or not ANA is present is a choice of the target implementation;
the host (and whether it supports multipathing) has _zero_ influence on
this. If the target declares a path as 'inaccessible' the path _is_
inaccessible to the host. As such, ANA support should be functional
even if native multipathing is not.

Introduce ability to always re-read ANA log page as required due to ANA
error and make current ANA state available via sysfs -- even if native
multipathing is disabled on the host (e.g. nvme_core.multipath=N).
This is achieved by factoring out nvme_update_ana() and calling it in
nvme_complete_rq() for all FAILOVER requests.

This affords userspace access to the current ANA state independent of
which layer might be doing multipathing. This makes 'nvme list-subsys'
show ANA state for all NVMe subsystems with multiple controllers. It
also allows userspace multipath-tools to rely on the NVMe driver for
ANA support while dm-multipath takes care of multipathing.

And as always, if embedded NVMe users do not want any performance
overhead associated with ANA or native NVMe multipathing they can
disable CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c      |  2 ++
 drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h      |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig April 20, 2021, 9:34 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Whether or not ANA is present is a choice of the target implementation;
> the host (and whether it supports multipathing) has _zero_ influence on
> this. If the target declares a path as 'inaccessible' the path _is_
> inaccessible to the host. As such, ANA support should be functional
> even if native multipathing is not.

NAK.  nvme-multipathing is the only supported option for subsystems with
multiple controllers.
Mike Snitzer April 20, 2021, 2:17 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Apr 20 2021 at  5:34am -0400,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > Whether or not ANA is present is a choice of the target implementation;
> > the host (and whether it supports multipathing) has _zero_ influence on
> > this. If the target declares a path as 'inaccessible' the path _is_
> > inaccessible to the host. As such, ANA support should be functional
> > even if native multipathing is not.

As you well know, ANA is decoupled from multipathing in the NVMe spec.
This fix illustrates that the existing Linux NVMe ANA handling is too
tightly coupled with native NVMe multipathing. Unfortunately, you've
forced this as a means to impose your political position:

> NAK.  nvme-multipathing is the only supported option for subsystems with
> multiple controllers.

And while this is largely irrelevant to the technical review of my fix:
native nvme-multipath may be the only supported option in your world. In
mine that isn't true and never has been.

Your political posturing doesn't replace technical justification. You
don't have a compelling technical case to take the stance you do, yet
you guard it like you do. Just a really stark inconsistency in your
technical leadership that is repeatedly left unchecked by others.

Alas.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index a12b10a1383c..83ca96292157 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@  static inline void nvme_end_req(struct request *req)
 
 static inline void nvme_failup_req(struct request *req)
 {
+	nvme_update_ana(req);
+
 	nvme_req(req)->status = NVME_SC_HOST_PATH_ERROR;
 	nvme_end_req(req);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index a1d476e1ac02..7d94250264aa 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -65,23 +65,29 @@  void nvme_set_disk_name(char *disk_name, struct nvme_ns *ns,
 	}
 }
 
-void nvme_failover_req(struct request *req)
+void nvme_update_ana(struct request *req)
 {
 	struct nvme_ns *ns = req->q->queuedata;
 	u16 status = nvme_req(req)->status & 0x7ff;
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	nvme_mpath_clear_current_path(ns);
 
 	/*
 	 * If we got back an ANA error, we know the controller is alive but not
-	 * ready to serve this namespace.  Kick of a re-read of the ANA
+	 * ready to serve this namespace.  Kick off a re-read of the ANA
 	 * information page, and just try any other available path for now.
 	 */
 	if (nvme_is_ana_error(status) && ns->ctrl->ana_log_buf) {
 		set_bit(NVME_NS_ANA_PENDING, &ns->flags);
 		queue_work(nvme_wq, &ns->ctrl->ana_work);
 	}
+}
+
+void nvme_failover_req(struct request *req)
+{
+	struct nvme_ns *ns = req->q->queuedata;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	nvme_mpath_clear_current_path(ns);
+	nvme_update_ana(req);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ns->head->requeue_lock, flags);
 	blk_steal_bios(&ns->head->requeue_list, req);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index 07b34175c6ce..4eed8536625c 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -664,6 +664,7 @@  void nvme_mpath_start_freeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys);
 void nvme_set_disk_name(char *disk_name, struct nvme_ns *ns,
 			struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, int *flags);
 void nvme_failover_req(struct request *req);
+void nvme_update_ana(struct request *req);
 void nvme_kick_requeue_lists(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl);
 int nvme_mpath_alloc_disk(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,struct nvme_ns_head *head);
 void nvme_mpath_add_disk(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_id_ns *id);
@@ -714,6 +715,9 @@  static inline void nvme_set_disk_name(char *disk_name, struct nvme_ns *ns,
 static inline void nvme_failover_req(struct request *req)
 {
 }
+static inline void nvme_update_ana(struct request *req)
+{
+}
 static inline void nvme_kick_requeue_lists(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 {
 }