>Subject: RE: [PATCH] scsi: storvsc: Correctly set number of hardware queues for
>IDE disk
>
>From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 12:17
>AM
>>
>> Commit 0ed881027690 ("scsi: storvsc: setup 1:1 mapping between
>> hardware queue and CPU queue") introduced a regression for disks
>> attached to IDE. For these disks the host VSP only offers one VMBUS
>> channel. Setting multiple queues can overload the VMBUS channel and
>> result in performance drop for high queue depth workload on system
>> with large number of CPUs.
>>
>> Fix it by leaving the number of hardware queues to 1 (default value)
>> for IDE disks.
>>
>> Fixes: 0ed881027690 ("scsi: storvsc: setup 1:1 mapping between
>> hardware queue and CPU
>> queue")
>> Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
>> index f8faf8b3d965..992b28e40374 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
>> @@ -1842,9 +1842,11 @@ static int storvsc_probe(struct hv_device *device,
>> */
>> host->sg_tablesize = (stor_device->max_transfer_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>> /*
>> + * For non-IDE disks, the host supports multiple channels.
>> * Set the number of HW queues we are supporting.
>> */
>> - host->nr_hw_queues = num_present_cpus();
>> + if (dev_id->driver_data != IDE_GUID)
>
>This function already has a pre-computed value of this test in
>the local variable "dev_is_ide". It would be more consistent
>to just use it.
>
>Michael
I will send v2 to address this.
Long
>
>> + host->nr_hw_queues = num_present_cpus();
>>
>> /*
>> * Set the error handler work queue.
>> --
>> 2.20.1
