Re: [PATCH v8 2/9] block/mq-deadline: Only use zone locking if necessary

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On 8/12/23 06:35, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Measurements have shown that limiting the queue depth to one per zone for
> zoned writes has a significant negative performance impact on zoned UFS
> devices. Hence this patch that disables zone locking by the mq-deadline
> scheduler if the storage controller preserves the command order. This
> patch is based on the following assumptions:
> - It happens infrequently that zoned write requests are reordered by the
>   block layer.
> - The I/O priority of all write requests is the same per zone.
> - Either no I/O scheduler is used or an I/O scheduler is used that
>   serializes write requests per zone.
> 
> Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/mq-deadline.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/mq-deadline.c b/block/mq-deadline.c
> index f958e79277b8..5c2fc4003bc0 100644
> --- a/block/mq-deadline.c
> +++ b/block/mq-deadline.c
> @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ deadline_fifo_request(struct deadline_data *dd, struct dd_per_prio *per_prio,
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	rq = rq_entry_fifo(per_prio->fifo_list[data_dir].next);
> -	if (data_dir == DD_READ || !blk_queue_is_zoned(rq->q))
> +	if (data_dir == DD_READ || !rq->q->limits.use_zone_write_lock)
>  		return rq;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ deadline_next_request(struct deadline_data *dd, struct dd_per_prio *per_prio,
>  	if (!rq)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -	if (data_dir == DD_READ || !blk_queue_is_zoned(rq->q))
> +	if (data_dir == DD_READ || !rq->q->limits.use_zone_write_lock)
>  		return rq;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -526,8 +526,9 @@ static struct request *__dd_dispatch_request(struct deadline_data *dd,
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * For a zoned block device, if we only have writes queued and none of
> -	 * them can be dispatched, rq will be NULL.
> +	 * For a zoned block device that requires write serialization, if we
> +	 * only have writes queued and none of them can be dispatched, rq will
> +	 * be NULL.
>  	 */
>  	if (!rq)
>  		return NULL;
> @@ -552,7 +553,8 @@ static struct request *__dd_dispatch_request(struct deadline_data *dd,
>  	/*
>  	 * If the request needs its target zone locked, do it.
>  	 */
> -	blk_req_zone_write_lock(rq);
> +	if (rq->q->limits.use_zone_write_lock)
> +		blk_req_zone_write_lock(rq);
>  	rq->rq_flags |= RQF_STARTED;
>  	return rq;
>  }
> @@ -934,7 +936,7 @@ static void dd_finish_request(struct request *rq)
>  
>  	atomic_inc(&per_prio->stats.completed);
>  
> -	if (blk_queue_is_zoned(q)) {
> +	if (rq->q->limits.use_zone_write_lock) {

This is all nice and simple ! However, an inline helper to check
rq->q->limits.use_zone_write_lock would be nice. E.g.
blk_queue_use_zone_write_lock() ?

>  		unsigned long flags;
>  
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->zone_lock, flags);

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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