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authorNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2013-02-27 17:53:52 -0800
committerNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2013-02-27 19:03:22 -0800
commitfd3a9025c0349bc9b01d627529f54e6e1e389015 (patch)
tree2b76a08283890e902756307e6e2c004c10a24099 /drivers/target/iscsi
parent972b29c8f86093f44e1d781588bd5c5faae3d8e3 (diff)
downloadlinux-fd3a9025c0349bc9b01d627529f54e6e1e389015.tar.gz
iscsi-target: Fix immediate queue starvation regression with DATAIN
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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/target/iscsi')
-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 23a98e658306..af77396234a2 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -3583,6 +3583,10 @@ 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,
@@ -3672,7 +3676,7 @@ check_rsp_state:
 		}
 
 		if (atomic_read(&conn->check_immediate_queue))
-			break;
+			return 1;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -3716,12 +3720,15 @@ 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;