[PATCH V6 4/5] blk-mq-sched: improve dispatching from sw queue

From: Ming Lei
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 07:25:19 EST


SCSI devices use host-wide tagset, and the shared driver tag space is
often quite big. Meantime there is also queue depth for each lun(
.cmd_per_lun), which is often small, for example, on both lpfc and
qla2xxx, .cmd_per_lun is just 3.

So lots of requests may stay in sw queue, and we always flush all
belonging to same hw queue and dispatch them all to driver, unfortunately
it is easy to cause queue busy because of the small .cmd_per_lun.
Once these requests are flushed out, they have to stay in hctx->dispatch,
and no bio merge can participate into these requests, and sequential IO
performance is hurt a lot.

This patch introduces blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx for dequeuing request from
sw queue so that we can dispatch them in scheduler's way, then we can
avoid to dequeue too many requests from sw queue when ->dispatch isn't
flushed completely.

This patch improves dispatching from sw queue when there is per-request-queue
queue depth by taking request one by one from sw queue, just like the way
of IO scheduler.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-mq-sched.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
block/blk-mq.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
block/blk-mq.h | 2 ++
include/linux/blk-mq.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index be29ba849408..14b354f617e5 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -104,6 +104,39 @@ static void blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
} while (blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list));
}

+static struct blk_mq_ctx *blk_mq_next_ctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx)
+{
+ unsigned idx = ctx->index_hw;
+
+ if (++idx == hctx->nr_ctx)
+ idx = 0;
+
+ return hctx->ctxs[idx];
+}
+
+static void blk_mq_do_dispatch_ctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
+{
+ struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue;
+ LIST_HEAD(rq_list);
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx = READ_ONCE(hctx->dispatch_from);
+
+ do {
+ struct request *rq;
+
+ rq = blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx(hctx, ctx);
+ if (!rq)
+ break;
+ list_add(&rq->queuelist, &rq_list);
+
+ /* round robin for fair dispatch */
+ ctx = blk_mq_next_ctx(hctx, rq->mq_ctx);
+
+ } while (blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list));
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(hctx->dispatch_from, ctx);
+}
+
void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
{
struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue;
@@ -143,10 +176,23 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
*/
if (!list_empty(&rq_list)) {
blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx);
- if (blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list) && has_sched_dispatch)
- blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(hctx);
+ if (blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list)) {
+ if (has_sched_dispatch)
+ blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(hctx);
+ else
+ blk_mq_do_dispatch_ctx(hctx);
+ }
} else if (has_sched_dispatch) {
blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(hctx);
+ } else if (q->queue_depth) {
+ /*
+ * If there is per-request_queue depth, we dequeue
+ * request one by one from sw queue for avoiding to mess
+ * up I/O merge when dispatch runs out of resource, which
+ * can be triggered easily when there is per-request_queue
+ * queue depth or .cmd_per_lun, such as SCSI device.
+ */
+ blk_mq_do_dispatch_ctx(hctx);
} else {
blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(hctx, &rq_list);
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 076cbab9c3e0..394cb75d66fa 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -911,6 +911,45 @@ void blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct list_head *list)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs);

+struct dispatch_rq_data {
+ struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
+ struct request *rq;
+};
+
+static bool dispatch_rq_from_ctx(struct sbitmap *sb, unsigned int bitnr,
+ void *data)
+{
+ struct dispatch_rq_data *dispatch_data = data;
+ struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx = dispatch_data->hctx;
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx = hctx->ctxs[bitnr];
+
+ spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
+ if (unlikely(!list_empty(&ctx->rq_list))) {
+ dispatch_data->rq = list_entry_rq(ctx->rq_list.next);
+ list_del_init(&dispatch_data->rq->queuelist);
+ if (list_empty(&ctx->rq_list))
+ sbitmap_clear_bit(sb, bitnr);
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&ctx->lock);
+
+ return !dispatch_data->rq;
+}
+
+struct request *blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *start)
+{
+ unsigned off = start ? start->index_hw : 0;
+ struct dispatch_rq_data data = {
+ .hctx = hctx,
+ .rq = NULL,
+ };
+
+ __sbitmap_for_each_set(&hctx->ctx_map, off,
+ dispatch_rq_from_ctx, &data);
+
+ return data.rq;
+}
+
static inline unsigned int queued_to_index(unsigned int queued)
{
if (!queued)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.h b/block/blk-mq.h
index ef15b3414da5..231cfb0d973b 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq.h
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ void blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct list_head *list);
bool blk_mq_hctx_has_pending(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx);
bool blk_mq_get_driver_tag(struct request *rq, struct blk_mq_hw_ctx **hctx,
bool wait);
+struct request *blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
+ struct blk_mq_ctx *start);

/*
* Internal helpers for allocating/freeing the request map
diff --git a/include/linux/blk-mq.h b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
index 50c6485cb04f..7b7a366a97f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk-mq.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ struct blk_mq_hw_ctx {

struct sbitmap ctx_map;

+ struct blk_mq_ctx *dispatch_from;
+
struct blk_mq_ctx **ctxs;
unsigned int nr_ctx;

--
2.9.5