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authorNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2013-02-27 17:53:52 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-03-14 11:26:11 -0700
commitf8d5ba6c2562b423d072cf66b7c8ae09c239a728 (patch)
tree8d46a55bf94563a2cc9f8fcac67327d5d676bea8
parent50909650d88133e2231cf43632d2f4ee76266fd1 (diff)
iscsi-target: Fix immediate queue starvation regression with DATAIN
commit fd3a9025c0349bc9b01d627529f54e6e1e389015 upstream. This patch addresses a v3.5+ regression in iscsi-target where TX thread process context -> handle_response_queue() execution is allowed to run unbounded while servicing constant outgoing flow of ISTATE_SEND_DATAIN response state. This ends up preventing memory release of StatSN acknowledged commands in a timely manner when under heavy large block streaming DATAIN workloads. The regression bug was initially introduced with: commit 6f3c0e69a9c20441bdc6d3b2d18b83b244384ec6 Author: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com> Date: Tue Apr 3 15:51:09 2012 -0700 target/iscsi: Refactor target_tx_thread immediate+response queue loops Go ahead and follow original iscsi_target_tx_thread() logic and check to break for immediate queue processing after each DataIN Sequence and/or Response PDU has been sent. Reported-by: Benjamin ESTRABAUD <be@mpstor.com> Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
index 339f97f7085b..42a2bf759d8f 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -3570,6 +3570,10 @@ check_rsp_state:
spin_lock_bh(&cmd->istate_lock);
cmd->i_state = ISTATE_SENT_STATUS;
spin_unlock_bh(&cmd->istate_lock);
+
+ if (atomic_read(&conn->check_immediate_queue))
+ return 1;
+
continue;
} else if (ret == 2) {
/* Still must send status,
@@ -3659,7 +3663,7 @@ check_rsp_state:
}
if (atomic_read(&conn->check_immediate_queue))
- break;
+ return 1;
}
return 0;
@@ -3703,12 +3707,15 @@ restart:
signal_pending(current))
goto transport_err;
+get_immediate:
ret = handle_immediate_queue(conn);
if (ret < 0)
goto transport_err;
ret = handle_response_queue(conn);
- if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+ if (ret == 1)
+ goto get_immediate;
+ else if (ret == -EAGAIN)
goto restart;
else if (ret < 0)
goto transport_err;