engines/libaio: don't reap on EAGAIN and no pending events

Instead just loop on submit, since there are no events for us
to reap. This is usually a kernel bug, violating the principle
of forward progress guarantee.

If we can't submit anything in 30 seconds, error out.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

diff --git a/engines/libaio.c b/engines/libaio.c
index cd10aabfe831c772602cc9523756e27dcc4f310a..ca7bfdef58a35a58d29de89a33d7176eef3e4cf7 100644 (file)
--- a/engines/libaio.c
+++ b/engines/libaio.c
@@ -234,7 +234,8 @@ static int fio_libaio_commit(struct thread_data *td)
        struct libaio_data *ld = td->io_ops->data;
        struct iocb **iocbs;
        struct io_u **io_us;
        struct libaio_data *ld = td->io_ops->data;
        struct iocb **iocbs;
        struct io_u **io_us;

-       int ret;
+       struct timeval tv;
+       int ret, wait_start = 0;

 
        if (!ld->queued)
                return 0;
 
        if (!ld->queued)
                return 0;


@@ -262,10 +263,24 @@ static int fio_libaio_commit(struct thread_data *td)
                        /*
                         * If we get EAGAIN, we should break out without
                         * error and let the upper layer reap some
                        /*
                         * If we get EAGAIN, we should break out without
                         * error and let the upper layer reap some

-                        * events for us.
+                        * events for us. If we have no queued IO, we
+                        * must loop here. If we loop for more than 30s,
+                        * just error out, something must be buggy in the
+                        * IO path.

                         */
                         */

-                       ret = 0;
-                       break;
+                       if (ld->queued) {
+                               ret = 0;
+                               break;
+                       }
+                       if (!wait_start) {
+                               fio_gettime(&tv, NULL);
+                               wait_start = 0;
+                       } else if (mtime_since_now(&tv) > 30000) {
+                               log_err("fio: aio appears to be stalled, giving up\n");
+                               break;
+                       }
+                       usleep(1);
+                       continue;

                } else
                        break;
        } while (ld->head != ld->tail);
                } else
                        break;
        } while (ld->head != ld->tail);