linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] NVMe: conversion to blk-mq

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Message-ID: <539B05A1.7080700@fb.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2014 08:07:29 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
CC:	Matias Bjørling <m@...rling.me>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	"sbradshaw@...ron.com" <sbradshaw@...ron.com>,
	"tom.leiming@...il.com" <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	"hch@...radead.org" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] NVMe: conversion to blk-mq

On 06/12/2014 06:06 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> When cancelling IOs, we have to check if the hwctx has a valid tags
> for some reason. I have 32 cores in my system and as many queues, but

It's because unused queues are torn down, to save memory.

> blk-mq is only using half of those queues and freed the "tags" for the
> rest after they'd been initialized without telling the driver. Why is
> blk-mq not making utilizing all my queues?

You have 31 + 1 queues, so only 31 mappable queues. blk-mq symmetrically
distributes these, so you should have a core + thread sibling on 16
queues. And yes, that leaves 15 idle hardware queues for this specific
case. I like the symmetry, it makes it more predictable if things are
spread out evenly.

But it is a policy decision that could be changed. The logic is in the
50 lines of code in block/blk-mq-cpumap.c:blk_mq_update_queue_map().

Thanks for the abort and completion fixes, looks a lot better now. It
might be cleaner to have blk_mq_tag_busy_iter() just work for
!hctx->tags, since this is actually the 2nd time I've run into this now.

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