Add a new configfs attribute for enabling pipelining of zoned writes. The test script below reports 250 K IOPS with no I/O scheduler, 6 K IOPS with mq-deadline and pipelining disabled and 123 K IOPS with mq-deadline and pipelining enabled. This shows that pipelining results in about 20 times more IOPS for this particular test case. #!/bin/bash for mode in "none 0" "mq-deadline 0" "mq-deadline 1"; do set +e for d in /sys/kernel/config/nullb/*; do [ -d "$d" ] && rmdir "$d" done modprobe -r null_blk set -e read -r iosched pipelining <<<"$mode" modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 ( cd /sys/kernel/config/nullb mkdir nullb0 cd nullb0 params=( completion_nsec=100000 hw_queue_depth=64 irqmode=2 # NULL_IRQ_TIMER max_sectors=$((4096/512)) memory_backed=1 pipeline_zoned_writes="${pipelining}" size=1 submit_queues=1 zone_size=1 zoned=1 power=1 ) for p in "${params[@]}"; do echo "${p//*=}" > "${p//=*}" done ) udevadm settle dev=/dev/nullb0 [ -b "${dev}" ] params=( --direct=1 --filename="${dev}" --iodepth=64 --iodepth_batch=16 --ioengine=io_uring --ioscheduler="${iosched}" --gtod_reduce=1 --hipri=0 --name=nullb0 --runtime=30 --rw=write --time_based=1 --zonemode=zbd ) fio "${params[@]}" done Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 2 ++ drivers/block/null_blk/null_blk.h | 1 + drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c index 864013019d6b..1cd6eb4e2c16 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c @@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(zone_capacity, ulong, NULL); NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(zone_nr_conv, uint, NULL); NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(zone_max_open, uint, NULL); NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(zone_max_active, uint, NULL); +NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(pipeline_zoned_writes, bool, NULL); NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(virt_boundary, bool, NULL); NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(no_sched, bool, NULL); NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(shared_tag_bitmap, bool, NULL); @@ -569,6 +570,7 @@ static struct configfs_attribute *nullb_device_attrs[] = { &nullb_device_attr_zone_max_active, &nullb_device_attr_zone_readonly, &nullb_device_attr_zone_offline, + &nullb_device_attr_pipeline_zoned_writes, &nullb_device_attr_virt_boundary, &nullb_device_attr_no_sched, &nullb_device_attr_shared_tag_bitmap, diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/null_blk.h b/drivers/block/null_blk/null_blk.h index 929f659dd255..248acf288a8e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/null_blk.h +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/null_blk.h @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct nullb_device { bool memory_backed; /* if data is stored in memory */ bool discard; /* if support discard */ bool zoned; /* if device is zoned */ + bool pipeline_zoned_writes; bool virt_boundary; /* virtual boundary on/off for the device */ bool no_sched; /* no IO scheduler for the device */ bool shared_tag_bitmap; /* use hostwide shared tags */ diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c index 635ce0648133..2bfd5f7cee67 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c @@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ int null_init_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev, struct request_queue *q) spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_res_lock); + if (dev->pipeline_zoned_writes) + blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_PIPELINE_ZONED_WRITES, q); + if (dev->zone_nr_conv >= dev->nr_zones) { dev->zone_nr_conv = dev->nr_zones - 1; pr_info("changed the number of conventional zones to %u",