Hi Guys,
The 1st patch removes the workaround of blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() in
case of requeue, this way isn't necessary, and more worse, it makes
BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART not working, and degarde I/O performance.
The 2nd patch return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE to dm-rq if underlying request
allocation fails, then we can return BLK_STS_RESOURCE from dm-rq to
blk-mq, so that blk-mq can hold the requests to be dequeued.
The other 3 paches changes the blk-mq part of blk_insert_cloned_request(),
in which we switch to blk_mq_try_issue_directly(), so that both dm-rq
and blk-mq can get the dispatch result of underlying queue, and with
this information, blk-mq can handle IO merge much better, then
sequential I/O performance is improved much. In my dm-mpath over
virtio-scsi test, this improvement can be 3X ~ 5X.
V2:
- drop 'dm-mpath: cache ti->clone during requeue', which is a bit
too complicated, and not see obvious performance improvement.
- make change on blk-mq part cleaner
Ming Lei (5):
dm-mpath: don't call blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() in case of
BLK_STS_RESOURCE
dm-mpath: return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in case of rq allocation failure
blk-mq: move actual issue into one helper
blk-mq: return dispatch result to caller in blk_mq_try_issue_directly
blk-mq: issue request directly for blk_insert_cloned_request
block/blk-core.c | 3 +-
block/blk-mq.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
block/blk-mq.h | 3 ++
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 18 ++++++++---
drivers/md/dm-rq.c | 20 +++++++++---
5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
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