This patch introduces the parameter of 'g_host_tags' so that we can test this feature by null_blk easiy. With host_tags when the whole hw depth is kept as same, it is observed that IOPS can be improved by ~50% on a dual socket(total 16 CPU cores) system: 1) no 'host_tags', each hw queue depth is 16, and 1 hw queue modprobe null_blk queue_mode=2 nr_devices=4 shared_tags=1 host_tags=0 submit_queues=1 hw_queue_depth=16 IOPS: 1382K 2) 'host_tags', each hw queue depth is 8, and 2 hw queues modprobe null_blk queue_mode=2 nr_devices=4 shared_tags=1 host_tags=1 submit_queues=2 hw_queue_depth=16 IOPS: 2124K 3) fio test done in above two settings: fio --bs=4k --size=512G --rw=randread --norandommap --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=4 --runtime=$RUNTIME --group_reporting=1 --name=nullb0 --filename=/dev/nullb0 --name=nullb1 --filename=/dev/nullb1 --name=nullb2 --filename=/dev/nullb2 --name=nullb3 --filename=/dev/nullb3 Cc: Arun Easi <arun.easi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>, Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>, Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Cc: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Rivera <peter.rivera@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c index 287a09611c0f..51b16249028a 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c @@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ static int g_submit_queues = 1; module_param_named(submit_queues, g_submit_queues, int, S_IRUGO); MODULE_PARM_DESC(submit_queues, "Number of submission queues"); +static int g_host_tags = 0; +module_param_named(host_tags, g_host_tags, int, S_IRUGO); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(host_tags, "All submission queues share one tags"); + static int g_home_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; module_param_named(home_node, g_home_node, int, S_IRUGO); MODULE_PARM_DESC(home_node, "Home node for the device"); @@ -1622,6 +1626,8 @@ static int null_init_tag_set(struct nullb *nullb, struct blk_mq_tag_set *set) set->flags = BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE; if (g_no_sched) set->flags |= BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED; + if (g_host_tags) + set->flags |= BLK_MQ_F_HOST_TAGS; set->driver_data = NULL; if ((nullb && nullb->dev->blocking) || g_blocking) -- 2.9.5
