linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] block: Extand commit

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 23:26:07 -0700
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, axboe@...nel.dk,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>,
        linux-mmc <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] block: Extand commit_rqs() to do batch
 processing


>> devices will benefit from the batching so maybe the flag needs to be
>> inverted? BLK_MQ_F_DONT_BATCHING_SUBMISSION?
> 
> Actually I'd rather to not add any flag, and we may use some algorithm
> (maybe EWMA or other intelligent stuff, or use hctx->dispatch_busy directly)
> to figure out one dynamic batching number which is used to dequeue requests
> from scheduler or sw queue.
> 
> Then just one single dispatch io code path is enough.

Sounds good to me, do you plan to submit a patchset?