linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 091/178] blk-mq-sched: dispatch from scheduler IFF progress is made in ->dispatch

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Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:48:47 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 091/178] blk-mq-sched: dispatch from scheduler IFF progress is made in ->dispatch

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>


[ Upstream commit 5e3d02bbafad38975099b5848f5ebadedcf7bb7e ]

When the hw queue is busy, we shouldn't take requests from the scheduler
queue any more, otherwise it is difficult to do IO merge.

This patch fixes the awful IO performance on some SCSI devices(lpfc,
qla2xxx, ...) when mq-deadline/kyber is used by not taking requests if
hw queue is busy.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 block/blk-mq-sched.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(stru
 	struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue;
 	struct elevator_queue *e = q->elevator;
 	const bool has_sched_dispatch = e && e->type->ops.mq.dispatch_request;
-	bool did_work = false;
+	bool do_sched_dispatch = true;
 	LIST_HEAD(rq_list);
 
 	/* RCU or SRCU read lock is needed before checking quiesced flag */
@@ -125,18 +125,18 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(stru
 	 */
 	if (!list_empty(&rq_list)) {
 		blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx);
-		did_work = blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
+		do_sched_dispatch = blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
 	} else if (!has_sched_dispatch) {
 		blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(hctx, &rq_list);
 		blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * We want to dispatch from the scheduler if we had no work left
-	 * on the dispatch list, OR if we did have work but weren't able
-	 * to make progress.
+	 * We want to dispatch from the scheduler if there was nothing
+	 * on the dispatch list or we were able to dispatch from the
+	 * dispatch list.
 	 */
-	if (!did_work && has_sched_dispatch) {
+	if (do_sched_dispatch && has_sched_dispatch) {
 		do {
 			struct request *rq;