Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] block: remove unnecessary RESTART

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On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 13:38 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 04:53:18AM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 12:43 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > The 1st patch removes the RESTART for TAG-SHARED because SCSI handles it
> > > by itself, and not necessary to waste CPU to do the expensive RESTART.
> > > And Roman Pen reported that this RESTART cuts half of IOPS in his case.
> > > 
> > > The 2nd patch removes the RESTART when .get_budget returns BLK_STS_RESOURCE,
> > > and this RESTART is handled by SCSI's RESTART(scsi_end_request()) too.
> > 
> > There are more block drivers than the SCSI core that share tags. If the
> 
> Could you share us what the other in-tree driver which share tags is?

I think the following in-tree drivers support shared tags (in alphabetical
order):
* null_blk. See also the shared_tags kernel module parameter.
* nvme. See also nvme_alloc_ns().
* scsi-mq.

Please note that the queue_rq() function of *all* these drivers can return
BLK_STS_RESOURCE.

> Actually SCSI's RESTART is very thin, and it is just the per-host starved_list.

Do you see any reason that would prevent to move that mechanism from scsi-mq
into the blk-mq core?

Thanks,

Bart.




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