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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 1/5] genirq/affinity: don't mark 'affd' as const
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019, Keith Busch wrote:

Cc+ Huacai Chen

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:41:55PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Btw, while I have your attention. There popped up an issue recently related
> > to that affinity logic.
> >
> > The current implementation fails when:
> >
> > /*
> > * If there aren't any vectors left after applying the pre/post
> > * vectors don't bother with assigning affinity.
> > */
> > if (nvecs == affd->pre_vectors + affd->post_vectors)
> > return NULL;
> >
> > Now the discussion arised, that in that case the affinity sets are not
> > allocated and filled in for the pre/post vectors, but somehow the
> > underlying device still works and later on triggers the warning in the
> > blk-mq code because the MSI entries do not have affinity information
> > attached.
> >
> > Sure, we could make that work, but there are several issues:
> >
> > 1) irq_create_affinity_masks() has another reason to return NULL:
> > memory allocation fails.
> >
> > 2) Does it make sense at all.
> >
> > Right now the PCI allocator ignores the NULL return and proceeds without
> > setting any affinities. As a consequence nothing is managed and everything
> > happens to work.
> >
> > But that happens to work is more by chance than by design and the warning
> > is bogus if this is an expected mode of operation.
> >
> > We should address these points in some way.
>
> Ah, yes, that's a mistake in the nvme driver. It is assuming IO queues are
> always on managed interrupts, but that's not true if when only 1 vector
> could be allocated. This should be an appropriate fix to the warning:

Looks correct. Chen, can you please test that?

> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 022ea1ee63f8..f2ccebe1c926 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int nvme_pci_map_queues(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
> * affinity), so use the regular blk-mq cpu mapping
> */
> map->queue_offset = qoff;
> - if (i != HCTX_TYPE_POLL)
> + if (i != HCTX_TYPE_POLL && dev->num_vecs > 1)
> blk_mq_pci_map_queues(map, to_pci_dev(dev->dev), offset);
> else
> blk_mq_map_queues(map);
> --
>

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