In case of shared sbitmap, request won't be held in plug list any more sine commit 32bc15afed04 ("blk-mq: Facilitate a shared sbitmap per tagset"), this way makes request merge from flush plug list & batching submission not possible, so cause performance regression. Yanhui reports performance regression when running sequential IO test(libaio, 16 jobs, 8 depth for each job) in VM, and the VM disk is emulated with image stored on xfs/megaraid_sas. Fix the issue by recovering original behavior to allow to hold request in plug list. Cc: Yanhui Ma <yama@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: kashyap.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 32bc15afed04 ("blk-mq: Facilitate a shared sbitmap per tagset") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index ae7f5ee41cd3..baf7a9546068 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -2236,8 +2236,9 @@ blk_qc_t blk_mq_submit_bio(struct bio *bio) /* Bypass scheduler for flush requests */ blk_insert_flush(rq); blk_mq_run_hw_queue(data.hctx, true); - } else if (plug && (q->nr_hw_queues == 1 || q->mq_ops->commit_rqs || - !blk_queue_nonrot(q))) { + } else if (plug && (q->nr_hw_queues == 1 || + blk_mq_is_sbitmap_shared(rq->mq_hctx->flags) || + q->mq_ops->commit_rqs || !blk_queue_nonrot(q))) { /* * Use plugging if we have a ->commit_rqs() hook as well, as * we know the driver uses bd->last in a smart fashion. -- 2.29.2