This patch addresses a v3.5+ regression in iscsi-target where TX thread
process context -> handle_response_queue() execution is allowed to run
unbounded while servicing constant outgoing flow of ISTATE_SEND_DATAIN
response state.
This ends up preventing memory release of StatSN acknowledged commands
in a timely manner when under heavy large block streaming DATAIN
workloads.
The regression bug was initially introduced with:
commit 6f3c0e69a9
Author: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Apr 3 15:51:09 2012 -0700
target/iscsi: Refactor target_tx_thread immediate+response queue loops
Go ahead and follow original iscsi_target_tx_thread() logic and check
to break for immediate queue processing after each DataIN Sequence and/or
Response PDU has been sent.
Reported-by: Benjamin ESTRABAUD <be@mpstor.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
fd3a9025c0