linux-kernel - [PATCH V2 0/5] dm-rq: improve sequential I/O performance

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Message-Id: <20171127050721.5884-1-ming.lei@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:07:16 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 0/5] dm-rq: improve sequential I/O performance

Hi Guys,

The 1st patch removes the workaround of blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() in
case of requeue, this way isn't necessary, and more worse, it makes
BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART not working, and degarde I/O performance.

The 2nd patch return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE to dm-rq if underlying request
allocation fails, then we can return BLK_STS_RESOURCE from dm-rq to
blk-mq, so that blk-mq can hold the requests to be dequeued.

The other 3 paches changes the blk-mq part of blk_insert_cloned_request(),
in which we switch to blk_mq_try_issue_directly(), so that both dm-rq
and blk-mq can get the dispatch result of underlying queue, and with
this information, blk-mq can handle IO merge much better, then
sequential I/O performance is improved much. In my dm-mpath over
virtio-scsi test, this improvement can be 3X ~ 5X.

V2:
	- drop 'dm-mpath: cache ti->clone during requeue', which is a bit
	too complicated, and not see obvious performance improvement.
	- make change on blk-mq part cleaner

Ming Lei (5):
  dm-mpath: don't call blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() in case of
    BLK_STS_RESOURCE
  dm-mpath: return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in case of rq allocation failure
  blk-mq: move actual issue into one helper
  blk-mq: return dispatch result to caller in blk_mq_try_issue_directly
  blk-mq: issue request directly for blk_insert_cloned_request

 block/blk-core.c      |  3 +-
 block/blk-mq.c        | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 block/blk-mq.h        |  3 ++
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 18 ++++++++---
 drivers/md/dm-rq.c    | 20 +++++++++---
 5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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