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nvme: improve handling of long keep alives
authorUday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Thu, 25 May 2023 18:22:04 +0000 (12:22 -0600)
committerKeith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Wed, 31 May 2023 03:57:42 +0000 (20:57 -0700)
commitc7275ce6a5fd32ca9f5a6294ed89cf0523181af9
tree9751bb1f78691a18d83a3a84aa5f84cb052397b4
parent774a9636514764ddc0d072ae0d1d1c01a47e6ddd
nvme: improve handling of long keep alives

Upon keep alive completion, nvme_keep_alive_work is scheduled with the
same delay every time. If keep alive commands are completing slowly,
this may cause a keep alive timeout. The following trace illustrates the
issue, taking KATO = 8 and TBKAS off for simplicity:

1. t = 0: run nvme_keep_alive_work, send keep alive
2. t = ε: keep alive reaches controller, controller restarts its keep
          alive timer
3. t = 4: host receives keep alive completion, schedules
          nvme_keep_alive_work with delay 4
4. t = 8: run nvme_keep_alive_work, send keep alive

Here, a keep alive having RTT of 4 causes a delay of at least 8 - ε
between the controller receiving successive keep alives. With ε small,
the controller is likely to detect a keep alive timeout.

Fix this by calculating the RTT of the keep alive command, and adjusting
the scheduling delay of the next keep alive work accordingly.

Reported-by: Costa Sapuntzakis <costa@purestorage.com>
Reported-by: Randy Jennings <randyj@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
drivers/nvme/host/core.c