Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] dm mpath: eliminate use of spinlock in IO fast-paths

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On 03/31/2016 10:04 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> The primary motivation of this commit is to improve the scalability of
> DM multipath on large NUMA systems where m->lock spinlock contention has
> been proven to be a serious bottleneck on really fast storage.
> 
> The ability to atomically read a pointer, using lockless_dereference(),
> is leveraged in this commit.  But all pointer writes are still protected
> by the m->lock spinlock (which is fine since these all now occur in the
> slow-path).
> 
> The following functions no longer require the m->lock spinlock in their
> fast-path: multipath_busy(), __multipath_map(), and do_end_io()
> 
> And choose_pgpath() is modified to _not_ update m->current_pgpath unless
> it also switches the path-group.  This is done to avoid needing to take
> the m->lock everytime __multipath_map() calls choose_pgpath().
> But m->current_pgpath will be reset if it is failed via fail_path().
> 
> Suggested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 93 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
> 
I really like this :-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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