linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] scsi: ufs: Optimize host lock on transfer requests send/compl paths

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Date:   Thu, 3 Jun 2021 10:54:25 +0800
From:   Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@...iatek.com>
To:     Can Guo <cang@...eaurora.org>
CC:     <asutoshd@...eaurora.org>, <nguyenb@...eaurora.org>,
        <hongwus@...eaurora.org>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-team@...roid.com>, Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        Avri Altman <avri.altman@....com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Bean Huo <beanhuo@...ron.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        "Adrian Hunter" <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Kiwoong Kim <kwmad.kim@...sung.com>,
        Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] scsi: ufs: Optimize host lock on transfer
 requests send/compl paths

Hi Can,

On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 01:36 -0700, Can Guo wrote:
> Current UFS IRQ handler is completely wrapped by host lock, and because
> ufshcd_send_command() is also protected by host lock, when IRQ handler
> fires, not only the CPU running the IRQ handler cannot send new requests,
> the rest CPUs can neither. Move the host lock wrapping the IRQ handler into
> specific branches, i.e., ufshcd_uic_cmd_compl(), ufshcd_check_errors(),
> ufshcd_tmc_handler() and ufshcd_transfer_req_compl(). Meanwhile, to further
> reduce occpuation of host lock in ufshcd_transfer_req_compl(), host lock is
> no longer required to call __ufshcd_transfer_req_compl(). As per test, the
> optimization can bring considerable gain to random read/write performance.
> 
> Cc: Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@...iatek.com>
> Co-developed-by: Asutosh Das <asutoshd@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Asutosh Das <asutoshd@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Can Guo <cang@...eaurora.org>

According to my test, the performance indeed has impressive improvement
with this series!

Reviewed-by: Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@...iatek.com>




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