From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754543AbdLGSIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2017 13:08:19 -0500 Received: from omzsmtpe02.verizonbusiness.com ([199.249.25.209]:2822 "EHLO omzsmtpe02.verizonbusiness.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755387AbdLGPqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:46:54 -0500 From: alexander.levin@verizon.com Cc: Ming Lei , Jens Axboe , alexander.levin@verizon.com X-Host: mariner.tdc.vzwcorp.com To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 046/135] blk-mq-sched: dispatch from scheduler IFF progress is made in ->dispatch Thread-Topic: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 046/135] blk-mq-sched: dispatch from scheduler IFF progress is made in ->dispatch Thread-Index: AQHTb3JvvZPwNJww2kWD/Lc2F+MPHw== Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:45:41 +0000 Message-ID: <20171207154513.4154-46-alexander.levin@verizon.com> References: <20171207154513.4154-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> In-Reply-To: <20171207154513.4154-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-messagesentrepresentingtype: 1 x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.144.60.250] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id vB7I8eCG014245 From: Ming Lei [ Upstream commit 5e3d02bbafad38975099b5848f5ebadedcf7bb7e ] When the hw queue is busy, we shouldn't take requests from the scheduler queue any more, otherwise it is difficult to do IO merge. This patch fixes the awful IO performance on some SCSI devices(lpfc, qla2xxx, ...) when mq-deadline/kyber is used by not taking requests if hw queue is busy. Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- block/blk-mq-sched.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c index 4ab69435708c..eca011fdfa0e 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c +++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue; struct elevator_queue *e = q->elevator; const bool has_sched_dispatch = e && e->type->ops.mq.dispatch_request; - bool did_work = false; + bool do_sched_dispatch = true; LIST_HEAD(rq_list); /* RCU or SRCU read lock is needed before checking quiesced flag */ @@ -125,18 +125,18 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) */ if (!list_empty(&rq_list)) { blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx); - did_work = blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list); + do_sched_dispatch = blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list); } else if (!has_sched_dispatch) { blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(hctx, &rq_list); blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list); } /* - * We want to dispatch from the scheduler if we had no work left - * on the dispatch list, OR if we did have work but weren't able - * to make progress. + * We want to dispatch from the scheduler if there was nothing + * on the dispatch list or we were able to dispatch from the + * dispatch list. */ - if (!did_work && has_sched_dispatch) { + if (do_sched_dispatch && has_sched_dispatch) { do { struct request *rq; -- 2.11.0