Best practices on driver binding for SPDK in production environments
by Lance Hartmann ORACLE
This email to the SPDK list is a follow-on to a brief discussion held during a recent SPDK community meeting (Tue Jun 26 UTC 15:00).
Lifted and edited from the Trello agenda item (https://trello.com/c/U291IBYx/91-best-practices-on-driver-binding-for-spd... <https://trello.com/c/U291IBYx/91-best-practices-on-driver-binding-for-spd...>):
During development many (most?) people rely on the run of SPDK's scripts/setup.sh to perform a number of initializations, among them the unbinding of the Linux kernel nvme driver from NVMe controllers targeted for use by the SPDK and then binding them to either uio_pci_generic or vfio-pci. This script is applicable for development environments, but not targeted for use in productions systems employing the SPDK.
I'd like to confer with my fellow SPDK community members on ideas, suggestions and best practices for handling this driver unbinding/binding. I wrote some udev rules along with updates to some other Linux system conf files for automatically loading either the uio_pci_generic or vfio-pci modules. I also had to update my initramfs so that when the system comes all the way up, the desired NVMe controllers are already bound to the needed driver for SPDK operation. And, as a bonus, it should "just work" when a hotplug occurs as well. However, there may be additional considerations I might have overlooked on which I'd appreciate input. Further, there's the matter of how and whether to semi-automate this configuration via some kind of script and how that might vary according to Linux distro to say nothing of the determination of employing uio_pci_generic vs vfio-pci.
And, now some details:
1. I performed this on an Oracle Linux (OL) distro. I’m currently unaware how and what configuration files might be different depending on the distro. Oracle Linux is RedHat-compatible, so I’m confident my implementation should run similarly on RedHat-based systems, but I’ve yet to delve into other distro’s like Debian, SuSE, etc.
2. In preparation to writing my own udev rules, I unbound a specific NVMe controller from the Linux nvme driver by hand. Then, in another window I launched: "udevadm monitor -k -p” so that I could observe the usual udev events when a NVMe controller is bound to the nvme driver. On my system, I observed four (4) udev kernel events (abbreviated/edited output to avoid this become excessively long):
(Event 1)
KERNEL[382128.187273] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0/nvme/nvme0 (nvme)
ACTION=add
DEVNAME=/dev/nvme0
…
SUBSYSTEM=nvme
(Event 2)
KERNEL[382128.244658] bind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0 (pci)
ACTION=bind
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0
DRIVER=nvme
…
SUBSYSTEM=pci
(Event 3)
KERNEL[382130.697832] add /devices/virtual/bdi/259:0 (bdi)
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/bdi/259:0
...
SUBSYSTEM=bdi
(Event 4)
KERNEL[382130.698192] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1 (block)
ACTION=add
DEVNAME=/dev/nvme0n1
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1
DEVTYPE=disk
...
SUBSYSTEM=block
3. My udev rule triggers on (Event 2) above: the bind action. Upon this action, my udev rule appends operations to the special udev RUN variable such that udev will essentially mirror that which is done in the SPDK’s scripts/setup.sh for unbinding from the nvme driver and binding to, in my case, the vfio-pci driver.
4. With my new udev rules in place, I was successful getting specific NVMe controllers (based on bus-device-function) to unbind from the Linux nvme driver and bind to vfio-pci. However, I made a couple of observations in the kernel log (dmesg). In particular, I was drawn to the following for an NVMe controller at BDF: 0000:40:00.0 for which I had a udev rule to unbind from nvme and bind to vfio-pci:
[ 35.534279] nvme nvme1: pci function 0000:40:00.0
[ 37.964945] nvme nvme1: failed to mark controller live
[ 37.964947] nvme nvme1: Removing after probe failure status: 0
One theory I have for the above is that my udev RUN rule was invoked while the nvme driver’s probe() was still running on this controller, and perhaps the unbind request came in before the probe() completed hence this “name1: failed to mark controller live”. This has left lingering in my mind that maybe instead of triggering on (Event 2) when the bind occurs, that perhaps I should instead try to derive a trigger on the “last" udev event, an “add”, where the NVMe namespace’s are instantiated. Of course, I’d need to know ahead of time just how many namespaces exist on that controller if I were to do that so I’d trigger on the last one. I’m wondering if that may help to avoid what looks like a complaint during the middle of probe() of that particular controller. Then, again, maybe I can just safely ignore that and not worry about it at all? Thoughts?
I discovered another issue during this experimentation that is somewhat tangential to this task, but I’ll write a separate email on that topic.
thanks for any feedback,
--
Lance Hartmann
lance.hartmann(a)oracle.com
1 year, 2 months
Chandler Build Pool Test Failures
by Howell, Seth
Hi all,
There has been a rash of failures on the test pool starting last night. I was able to root cause the failures to a point in the NVMe-oF shutdown tests. The main substance of the failure is that QAT and the DPDK framework don't always play well with secondary dpdk processes. In the interest of avoiding these failures on future builds, please rebase your changes on the following patch series which includes the fix of not running bdevperf as a secondary process in the NVMe-oF shutdown tests.
https://review.gerrithub.io/c/spdk/spdk/+/435937/6
Thanks,
Seth Howell
1 year, 3 months
Topic from last week's community meeting
by Luse, Paul E
Hi Shuhei,
I was out of town last week and missed the meeting but saw on Trello you had the topic below:
"a few idea: log structured data store , data store with compression, and metadata replication of Blobstore"
Which I'd be pretty interested in working on with you or at least hearing more about it. When you get a chance, no hurry, can you please expand a little on how the conversation went and what you're looking at specifically?
Thanks!
Paul
1 year, 3 months
Add py-spdk client for SPDK
by We We
Hi, all
I have submitted the py-spdk code on https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/379741/, please take some time to visit it, I will be very grateful to you.
The py-spdk is client which can help the upper-level app to communicate with the SPDK-based app (such as: nvmf_tgt, vhost, iscsi_tgt, etc.). Should I submit it into the other repo I rebuild rather than SPDK repo? Because I think it is a relatively independent kit upon the SPDK.
If you have some thoughts about the py-spdk, please share with me.
Regards,
Helloway
1 year, 3 months
SPDK virtio-vhost-user series
by Stojaczyk, Dariusz
Hi Nikos,
I'm SPDK core maintainer responsible for the vhost library.
I saw your virtio-vhost-user patch series on gerrithub. I know you've
been talking about it on SPDK community meeting over a month ago,
although I was on holiday at that time.
I wanted to give you some background of what is currently going on
around SPDK vhost.
SPDK currently keeps an internal copy of DPDK's rte_vhost with a
couple of storage specific changes. We have tried to upstream those
changes to DPDK, but they were rejected [1]. Although they were
critical to support vhost-scsi or vhost-blk, they also altered how
vhost-net operated and that was DPDK's major concern. We kept the
internal rte_vhost copy but still haven't decided whether to try to
switch to DPDK's version or to completely derive from DPDK and
maintain our own vhost library. At one point we've also put together a
list of rte_vhost issues - one of which was vhost-user specification
incompliance that eventually made our vhost-scsi unusable with QEMU
2.12+. The amount of "fixes" that rte_vhost required was huge.
Instead, we tried to create a new, even lower level vhost library in
DPDK [2]. The initial API proposal was warmly welcomed [3], but a few
months later, after a PoC implementation was ready, the whole library
was rejected as well [4]. [One of the concerns the new library would
address was creating an abstraction and environment for
virtio-vhost-user, but apparently DPDK team didn't find that useful at
the time]
We still have the rte_vhost copy in SPDK and we still haven't decided
on its future strategy, which is why we were so reluctant to reviewing
your patches.
Just last week we seem to have finally made some progress, as a DPDK
patch that would potentially allow SPDK to use DPDK's rte_vhost
directly [5] was approved for DPDK 19.05. Around the end of February I
believe SPDK will try to stop using its rte_vhost copy and switch to
DPDK's rte_vhost with the mentioned patch.
After that happens, I would like to ask you to rebase your patches on
latest DPDK's rte_vhost and resubmit them to DPDK. I can certainly
help with upstreaming vfio no-iommu support in SPDK and am even
willing to implement registering non-2MB-aligned memory, but rte_vhost
changes belong in DPDK.
I'm sorry for the previous lack of transparency in this matter.
D.
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg91788.html
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg101943.html
[3] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg102042.html
[4] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg104886.html
[5] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/49921/
1 year, 8 months
A problem with SPDK 19.01 NVMeoF/RDMA target
by Valeriy Glushkov
Hi All!
It seems there is an issue in the 19.01 code that leads to a request stays unanswered and our test NVMeoF/RDMA host module does not receive the completion.
From the debug log of the target:
=======
rdma.c:1508:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_process: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 entering state 1
rdma.c:1508:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_process: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 entering state 2
rdma.c:1414:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_parse_sgl: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 took 1 buffer/s from central pool
rdma.c:1508:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_process: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 entering state 5
request.c: 121:nvmf_trace_command: *DEBUG*: Admin cmd: opc 0x02 fuse 0 cid 2751 nsid 4294967295 cdw10 0x001e0002
request.c: 127:nvmf_trace_command: *DEBUG*: psdt 0
request.c: 136:nvmf_trace_command: *DEBUG*: SGL: Keyed (Inv): addr 0xffffb28f67223dd0 key 0x8294c len 0x200
ctrlr.c:1285:spdk_nvmf_ctrlr_get_log_page: *DEBUG*: Get log page: LID=0x02 offset=0x0 len=0x7c
request.c: 92:spdk_nvmf_request_complete: *DEBUG*: cpl: cid=2751 cdw0=0x00000000 rsvd1=0 status=0x0000
rdma.c:1508:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_process: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 entering state 7
rdma.c:1508:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_process: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 entering state 8
rdma.c:1508:spdk_nvmf_rdma_request_process: *DEBUG*: Request 0x1402a20 entering state 8
========
The same host module works well with the SPDK 18.10.1 NVMf target.
Is this a bug in the recent SPDK code?
--
Best regards,
Valeriy Glushkov
www.starwind.com
valeriy.glushkov(a)starwind.com
1 year, 10 months
Updating discovery for ACL
by Shahar Salzman
Hi,
I am following up on bug # 576 - nvme discover shows all target subsystems, even those that are not accessible by the host.
I looked at the discovery subsystem code, and it seems that a good option would be to copy only the relevant part of the discovery log page (i.e. only information about subsystems that the host has access to).
The problem is, that on the discover request there is no hostnqn information,
Looking at the connect, I see that the hostnqn is checked, but not saved anywhere, so it looks like a good option to save it on the controller, so that we can later reference this value.
Now upon discovery we can copy the relevant portions of the log page.
WDYT?
Shahar
1 year, 10 months
CI system downtime 27th Feb 2019
by Latecki, Karol
Announcing 30 minutes SPDK CI scheduled downtime.
When:
27th February 2019
Downtime period: 11.00 - 11.30 AM UTC
Other time zones:
12.00 - 12.30 PM UTC+1
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Reason:
Scheduled work by IT department.
Apologies for such short notice time, we were just notified about this ourselves.
Karol
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1 year, 10 months
Bug fixes for SPDK 19.01.1 release
by Zawadzki, Tomasz
Hello all,
We are preparing for SPDK 19.01.1 release, which will contain critical bug fixes that were merged since release of SPDK 19.01.
Patches to be backported to 19.01.x branch need to be present in SPDK master first.
Please let us know if there are any important bug fixes that should be backported by adding "19.01.1" hashtag to the patch or replying to this thread.
Link for list of backporting candidates:
https://review.gerrithub.io/#/q/hashtag:%2219.01.1%22
Thank you,
Tomek
1 year, 10 months
QEMU OCSSD fork
by Klaus Birkelund
Hi,
The FTL document[1] mentions an SPDK QEMU fork[2] with OCSSD patches.
There does not seem to be any patches in that repo though.
I'm a contributor on the qemu-nvme[2] project which also provides an
emulated OCSSD device (only 2.0). We have recently added a lot of
features (SGLs, predefined data, support for DULBE, error injection). If
the SPDK team has a similar but unpublished fork would you consider
releasing it? I would be happy to see if it made sense to try and
consolidate our work on the forks.
[1]: https://github.com/spdk/spdk/blob/master/doc/ftl.md
[2]: https://github.com/OpenChannelSSD/qemu-nvme
Cheers,
Klaus
1 year, 10 months
