Re: [PATCH 04/14] blk-mq: Do not limit number of queues to 'nr_cpu_ids' in allocations

From: Omar Sandoval
Date: Mon Sep 19 2016 - 13:48:57 EST


On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 09:37:14AM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> Currently maximum number of used hardware queues is limited to
> number of CPUs in the system. However, using 'nr_cpu_ids' as
> the limit for (de-)allocations of data structures instead of
> existing data structures' counters (a) worsens readability and
> (b) leads to unused memory when number of hardware queues is
> less than number of CPUs.
>
> CC: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/blk-mq.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 276ec7b..2c77b68 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -2054,8 +2054,8 @@ struct request_queue *blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
> if (!q->queue_ctx)
> goto err_exit;
>
> - q->queue_hw_ctx = kzalloc_node(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(*(q->queue_hw_ctx)),
> - GFP_KERNEL, set->numa_node);
> + q->queue_hw_ctx = kzalloc_node(set->nr_hw_queues *
> + sizeof(*(q->queue_hw_ctx)), GFP_KERNEL, set->numa_node);
> if (!q->queue_hw_ctx)
> goto err_percpu;
>
> @@ -2319,7 +2319,7 @@ int blk_mq_alloc_tag_set(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
> if (set->nr_hw_queues > nr_cpu_ids)
> set->nr_hw_queues = nr_cpu_ids;
>
> - set->tags = kzalloc_node(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct blk_mq_tags *),
> + set->tags = kzalloc_node(set->nr_hw_queues * sizeof(*set->tags),
> GFP_KERNEL, set->numa_node);
> if (!set->tags)
> return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -2360,7 +2360,7 @@ void blk_mq_free_tag_set(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
> {
> int i;
>
> - for (i = 0; i < nr_cpu_ids; i++) {
> + for (i = 0; i < set->nr_hw_queues; i++) {
> if (set->tags[i])
> blk_mq_free_rq_map(set, set->tags[i], i);
> }

I don't think this is safe since we might increase the number of
hardware queues (blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues()).

--
Omar