Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] nbd: remove queue freeze in nbd_add_socket
- To: "Yang Erkun" <yangerkun@huawei.com>, <josef@toxicpanda.com>, <axboe@kernel.dk>, <hch@lst.de>, "yu kuai" <yukuai@fygo.io>
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- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] nbd: remove queue freeze in nbd_add_socket
- From: "yu kuai" <yukuai@fygo.io>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:17:48 +0800
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Hi,
在 2026/7/13 14:56, Yang Erkun 写道:
> nbd_add_socket can never run concurrently with inflight I/O:
>
> - netlink path: nbd_genl_connect calls nbd_add_socket before
> nbd_start_device, so no I/O can happened when invoking nbd_add_socket,
> nbd_genl_reconfigure cannot too since it won't call nbd_add_socket
>
> - ioctl path: NBD_SET_SOCK cannot be called after NBD_DO_IT with
> the previous commit, so capability of nbd will keep 0 while
> invoking NBD_SET_SOCK
>
> Removing the freeze in nbd_add_socket to speed up nbd device startup.
Check nbd_open(), the pid is not checked there, which means the nbd device
can be opened after add_disk() succeed. Normally read/write IO will not pass
bio_check_eod() checking, however, there can be special zero sized bio that
might still be issued to nbd device. So I think there should be a pid checking
in nbd_open() for this patch, and I'm not aware of any special IO mush be handled
before nbd_start_device(). Otherwise, the freeze is still necessary since
nbd_handle_cmd() will deference config->socks[] directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Erkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/nbd.c | 9 ---------
> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> index a15553ab4b97..0755b7046ed4 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> @@ -1272,7 +1272,6 @@ static int nbd_add_socket(struct nbd_device *nbd, unsigned long arg,
> struct socket *sock;
> struct nbd_sock **socks;
> struct nbd_sock *nsock;
> - unsigned int memflags;
> int err;
>
> /* Arg will be cast to int, check it to avoid overflow */
> @@ -1283,12 +1282,6 @@ static int nbd_add_socket(struct nbd_device *nbd, unsigned long arg,
> return err;
> nbd_reclassify_socket(sock);
>
> - /*
> - * We need to make sure we don't get any errant requests while we're
> - * reallocating the ->socks array.
> - */
> - memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(nbd->disk->queue);
> -
> if (!netlink && !nbd->task_setup &&
> !test_bit(NBD_RT_BOUND, &config->runtime_flags))
> nbd->task_setup = current;
> @@ -1335,12 +1328,10 @@ static int nbd_add_socket(struct nbd_device *nbd, unsigned long arg,
> INIT_WORK(&nsock->work, nbd_pending_cmd_work);
> socks[config->num_connections++] = nsock;
> atomic_inc(&config->live_connections);
> - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(nbd->disk->queue, memflags);
>
> return 0;
>
> put_socket:
> - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(nbd->disk->queue, memflags);
> sockfd_put(sock);
> return err;
> }
--
Thanks,
Kuai
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