On 6/3/21 4:47 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > Provided the device driver does not implement dispatch budget accounting > (which only SCSI does) the loop in __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched() pulls > requests from the IO scheduler as long as it is willing to give out any. > That defeats scheduling heuristics inside the scheduler by creating > false impression that the device can take more IO when it in fact > cannot. > > For example with BFQ IO scheduler on top of virtio-blk device setting > blkio cgroup weight has barely any impact on observed throughput of > async IO because __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched() always sucks out all the > IO queued in BFQ. BFQ first submits IO from higher weight cgroups but > when that is all dispatched, it will give out IO of lower weight cgroups > as well. And then we have to wait for all this IO to be dispatched to > the disk (which means lot of it actually has to complete) before the > IO scheduler is queried again for dispatching more requests. This > completely destroys any service differentiation. > > So grab request tag for a request pulled out of the IO scheduler already > in __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched() and do not pull any more requests if we > cannot get it because we are unlikely to be able to dispatch it. That > way only single request is going to wait in the dispatch list for some > tag to free. Applied to for-5.14/block, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
