Re: [External Mail]Re: [PATCH v3] block: move non sync requests complete flow to softirq

[章辉 <zhanghui31@xiaomi.com>]

在 2024/9/4 1:28, Bart Van Assche 写道:
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> On 9/3/24 4:54 AM, ZhangHui wrote:
>> Currently, for a controller that supports multiple queues, like UFS4.0,
>> the mq_ops->complete is executed in the interrupt top-half. Therefore,
>> the file system's end io is executed during the request completion 
>> process,
>> such as f2fs_write_end_io on smartphone.
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>> However, we found that the execution time of the file system end io
>> is strongly related to the size of the bio and the processing speed
>> of the CPU. Because the file system's end io will traverse every page
>> in bio, this is a very time-consuming operation.
>>
>> We measured that the 80M bio write operation on the little CPU will
>> cause the execution time of the top-half to be greater than 100ms.
>> The CPU tick on a smartphone is only 4ms, which will undoubtedly affect
>> scheduling efficiency.
>>
>> Let's fixed this issue by moved non sync request completion flow to
>> softirq, and keep the sync request completion in the top-half.
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> An explanation is missing from the patch description why this issue
> cannot be solved by changing rq_affinity to 2.
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> Thanks,
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> Bart.
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hi Bart,

Does set rq_affinity to 2 mean QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP?

This seems to determine on which core the current request is
completed, rather than in the interrupt top or bottom half?

Thanks
Zhang