[QUESTION] v4.12-rc5 BFQ enabled but unavailable?

From: vcaputo
Date: Tue Jun 13 2017 - 01:30:45 EST


Hello LKML,

Attempted to play with BFQ but after building with CONFIG_IOSCHED_BFQ=y I'm
still not seeing it:
# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop deadline [cfq]
#

Even though:
# dmesg | grep sched
[ 0.514536] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.514537] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.514577] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.514613] io scheduler bfq registered
#

Quick glance at block/elevator.c elv_iosched_show() reveals:
1125 list_for_each_entry(__e, &elv_list, list) {
1126 if (elv && !strcmp(elv->elevator_name, __e->elevator_name)) {
1127 len += sprintf(name+len, "[%s] ", elv->elevator_name);
1128 continue;
1129 }
1130 if (__e->uses_mq && q->mq_ops && elv_support_iosched(q))
1131 len += sprintf(name+len, "%s ", __e->elevator_name);
1132 else if (!__e->uses_mq && !q->mq_ops)
1133 len += sprintf(name+len, "%s ", __e->elevator_name);
1134 }

iosched_bfq_mq.uses_mq is true, so it appears bfq can be silently omitted from
elv_iosched_show() output if !q->mq_ops || !elv_support_iosched(q).

What magic incantation is recommended to get this stuff working and how is a
user like myself expected to discover it without digging through the code?

I glanced through Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt, but mq isn't mentioned:
$ grep -ic mq Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt
0
$

There are use_blk_mq parameters for dm_mod and scsi_mod, defaulting to N:
# cd /sys/module && find -iname '*mq*' -print -exec cat {} \;
./dm_mod/parameters/use_blk_mq
N
./dm_mod/parameters/dm_mq_nr_hw_queues
1
./dm_mod/parameters/dm_mq_queue_depth
2048
./scsi_mod/parameters/use_blk_mq
N
#

Is one expected to force use_blk_mq manually to make BFQ available?

Any advice appreciated, thanks!

Regards,
Vito Caputo