Hi Jens, This patch series improves small write IOPS by a factor of four (+300%) for zoned UFS devices on my test setup with a UFSHCI 3.0 controller. Please consider this patch series for the next merge window. Thank you, Bart. Changes compared to v5: - Renamed scsi_cmp_lba() into scsi_cmp_sector(). - Improved several source code comments. Changes compared to v4: - Dropped the patch that introduces the REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK flag. - Dropped the null_blk patch and added two scsi_debug patches instead. - Dropped the f2fs patch. - Split the patch for the UFS driver into two patches. - Modified several patch descriptions and source code comments. - Renamed dd_use_write_locking() into dd_use_zone_write_locking(). - Moved the list_sort() call from scsi_unjam_host() into scsi_eh_flush_done_q() such that sorting happens just before reinserting. - Removed the scsi_cmd_retry_allowed() call from scsi_check_sense() to make sure that the retry counter is adjusted once per retry instead of twice. Changes compared to v3: - Restored the patch that introduces QUEUE_FLAG_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK. That patch had accidentally been left out from v2. - In patch "block: Introduce the flag REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK", improved the patch description and added the function blk_no_zone_write_lock(). - In patch "block/mq-deadline: Only use zone locking if necessary", moved the blk_queue_is_zoned() call into dd_use_write_locking(). - In patch "fs/f2fs: Disable zone write locking", set REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK from inside __bio_alloc() instead of in f2fs_submit_write_bio(). Changes compared to v2: - Renamed the request queue flag for disabling zone write locking. - Introduced a new request flag for disabling zone write locking. - Modified the mq-deadline scheduler such that zone write locking is only disabled if both flags are set. - Added an F2FS patch that sets the request flag for disabling zone write locking. - Only disable zone write locking in the UFS driver if auto-hibernation is disabled. Changes compared to v1: - Left out the patches that are already upstream. - Switched the approach in patch "scsi: Retry unaligned zoned writes" from retrying immediately to sending unaligned write commands to the SCSI error handler. Bart Van Assche (7): block: Introduce the flag QUEUE_FLAG_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK block/mq-deadline: Only use zone locking if necessary scsi: core: Retry unaligned zoned writes scsi: scsi_debug: Support disabling zone write locking scsi: scsi_debug: Support injecting unaligned write errors scsi: ufs: Split an if-condition scsi: ufs: Disable zone write locking block/mq-deadline.c | 24 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++- drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sd.c | 3 +++ drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/linux/blkdev.h | 11 ++++++++++ include/scsi/scsi.h | 1 + 8 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
