On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 12:06 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 11:44 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > > On the bright side, with the busted migrate enable business reverted,
> > > plus one dinky change from me [1], master-rt.today has completed 100
> > > iterations of Steven's hotplug stress script along side endless
> > > futexstress, and is happily doing another 900 as I write this, so the
> > > next -rt should finally be hotplug deadlock free.
> > >
> > > Thomas's state machinery seems to work wonders. 'course this being
> > > hotplug, the other shoe will likely apply itself to my backside soon.
> >
> > That's a given :)
>
> blk-mq applied it shortly after I was satisfied enough to poke xmit.
The other shoe is that notifiers can depend upon RCU grace periods, so
when pin_current_cpu() snags rcu_sched, the hotplug game is over.
blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify:
/*
* We need to freeze and reinit all existing queues. Freezing
* involves synchronous wait for an RCU grace period and doing it
* one by one may take a long time. Start freezing all queues in
* one swoop and then wait for the completions so that freezing can
* take place in parallel.
*/
list_for_each_entry(q, &all_q_list, all_q_node)
blk_mq_freeze_queue_start(q);
list_for_each_entry(q, &all_q_list, all_q_node) {
blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(q);
Hohum (sharpens rock), next.
-Mike
