Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] blk-mq: Rerun dispatching in the case of budget contention

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Sun Apr 05 2020 - 12:26:57 EST


Hi,

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:15 AM Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> @@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ static void blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
> rq = e->type->ops.dispatch_request(hctx);
> if (!rq) {
> blk_mq_put_dispatch_budget(hctx);
> +
> + if (e->type->ops.has_work && e->type->ops.has_work(hctx))
> + blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(hctx, BLK_MQ_BUDGET_DELAY);

To really close the race, don't we need to run all the queues
associated with the hctx? I haven't traced it through, but I've been
assuming that the multiple "hctx"s associated with the same queue will
have the same budget associated with them and thus they can block each
other out.

-Doug