Re: [RFC] scsi: switch to scsi-mq by default

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 07/03/2018 08:54 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> It has been more than one year since we tried to change the default
> from legacy to multi queue in SCSI. Back then we had to retract the
> change because of performance issues with rotating disks.
> 
> In the meantime there have been a substantial amount of performance
> improvements, thus we can re-enable scsi-mq without a significant
> performance penalty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> index 35c909bbf8ba..bd115bab162e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ config SCSI_NETLINK
>  
>  config SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT
>  	bool "SCSI: use blk-mq I/O path by default"
> +	default y
>  	depends on SCSI
>  	---help---
>  	  This option enables the new blk-mq based I/O path for SCSI
> 

Yeah, let's try it.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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