Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] blk-mq: fix elevator depth_updated method

[Yu Kuai <yukuai1@huaweicloud.com>]

Hi,

在 2025/08/19 20:20, Nilay Shroff 写道:
> 
> 
> On 8/19/25 6:59 AM, Yu Kuai wrote:
>> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
>>
>> Current depth_updated has some problems:
>>
>> 1) depth_updated() will be called for each hctx, while all elevators
>> will update async_depth for the disk level, this is not related to hctx;
>> 2) In blk_mq_update_nr_requests(), if previous hctx update succeed and
>> this hctx update failed, q->nr_requests will not be updated, while
>> async_depth is already updated with new nr_reqeuests in previous
>> depth_updated();
>> 3) All elevators are using q->nr_requests to calculate async_depth now,
>> however, q->nr_requests is still the old value when depth_updated() is
>> called from blk_mq_update_nr_requests();
>>
>> Fix those problems by:
>>
>> - pass in request_queue instead of hctx;
>> - move depth_updated() after q->nr_requests is updated in
>>    blk_mq_update_nr_requests();
>> - add depth_updated() call in blk_mq_init_sched();
>> - remove init_hctx() method for mq-deadline and bfq that is useless now;
>>
>> Fixes: 77f1e0a52d26 ("bfq: update internal depth state when queue depth changes")
>> Fixes: 39823b47bbd4 ("block/mq-deadline: Fix the tag reservation code")
>> Fixes: 42e6c6ce03fd ("lib/sbitmap: convert shallow_depth from one word to the whole sbitmap")
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   block/bfq-iosched.c   | 21 ++++-----------------
>>   block/blk-mq-sched.c  |  3 +++
>>   block/blk-mq-sched.h  | 11 +++++++++++
>>   block/blk-mq.c        | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
>>   block/elevator.h      |  2 +-
>>   block/kyber-iosched.c | 10 ++++------
>>   block/mq-deadline.c   | 15 ++-------------
>>   7 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> index 50e51047e1fe..c0c398998aa1 100644
>> --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> @@ -7109,9 +7109,10 @@ void bfq_put_async_queues(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_group *bfqg)
>>    * See the comments on bfq_limit_depth for the purpose of
>>    * the depths set in the function. Return minimum shallow depth we'll use.
>>    */
>> -static void bfq_update_depths(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct sbitmap_queue *bt)
>> +static void bfq_depth_updated(struct request_queue *q)
>>   {
>> -	unsigned int nr_requests = bfqd->queue->nr_requests;
>> +	struct bfq_data *bfqd = q->elevator->elevator_data;
>> +	unsigned int nr_requests = q->nr_requests;
>>   
>>   	/*
>>   	 * In-word depths if no bfq_queue is being weight-raised:
>> @@ -7143,21 +7144,8 @@ static void bfq_update_depths(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct sbitmap_queue *bt)
>>   	bfqd->async_depths[1][0] = max((nr_requests * 3) >> 4, 1U);
>>   	/* no more than ~37% of tags for sync writes (~20% extra tags) */
>>   	bfqd->async_depths[1][1] = max((nr_requests * 6) >> 4, 1U);
>> -}
>> -
>> -static void bfq_depth_updated(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
>> -{
>> -	struct bfq_data *bfqd = hctx->queue->elevator->elevator_data;
>> -	struct blk_mq_tags *tags = hctx->sched_tags;
>>   
>> -	bfq_update_depths(bfqd, &tags->bitmap_tags);
>> -	sbitmap_queue_min_shallow_depth(&tags->bitmap_tags, 1);
>> -}
>> -
>> -static int bfq_init_hctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, unsigned int index)
>> -{
>> -	bfq_depth_updated(hctx);
>> -	return 0;
>> +	blk_mq_set_min_shallow_depth(q, 1);
>>   }
>>   
>>   static void bfq_exit_queue(struct elevator_queue *e)
>> @@ -7628,7 +7616,6 @@ static struct elevator_type iosched_bfq_mq = {
>>   		.request_merged		= bfq_request_merged,
>>   		.has_work		= bfq_has_work,
>>   		.depth_updated		= bfq_depth_updated,
>> -		.init_hctx		= bfq_init_hctx,
>>   		.init_sched		= bfq_init_queue,
>>   		.exit_sched		= bfq_exit_queue,
>>   	},
>> diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
>> index e2ce4a28e6c9..bf7dd97422ec 100644
>> --- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
>> +++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
>> @@ -585,6 +585,9 @@ int blk_mq_init_sched(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e,
>>   			}
>>   		}
>>   	}
>> +
>> +	if (e->ops.depth_updated)
>> +		e->ops.depth_updated(q);
>>   	return 0;
>>   
> 
> Overall changes look good. That said, I think it might be cleaner to structure
> it this way:
> 
> elevator_switch -> blk_mq_init_sched ->init_sched ==> sets async_depth
> blk_mq_update_nr_requests ->depth_updated ==> updates async_depth
> 
> This way, we don’t need to call ->depth_updated from blk_mq_init_sched.

Just to be sure, you mean calling the depth_updated method directly
inside the init_sched() method? This is indeed cleaner, each elevator
has to use this method to initialize async_dpeth.
> 
> In summary:
> - Avoid calling ->depth_updated during blk_mq_init_sched
> - Set async_depth when the elevator is initialized (via ->init_sched)
> - Update async_depth when nr_requests is modified through sysfs (via ->depth_updated)
> 
> Thanks,
> --Nilay
> .
> 

Thanks,
Kuai