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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:18:06 +0800
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] blk-mq-sched: support request batch dispatching
for sq elevator
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 04:22:02PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>
> Changes from v1:
> - the ioc changes are send separately;
> - change the patch 1-3 order as suggested by Damien;
>
> Currently, both mq-deadline and bfq have global spin lock that will be
> grabbed inside elevator methods like dispatch_request, insert_requests,
> and bio_merge. And the global lock is the main reason mq-deadline and
> bfq can't scale very well.
>
> For dispatch_request method, current behavior is dispatching one request at
> a time. In the case of multiple dispatching contexts, This behavior, on the
> one hand, introduce intense lock contention:
>
> t1: t2: t3:
> lock lock lock
> // grab lock
> ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
> // grab lock
> ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
> // grab lock
> ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
>
> on the other hand, messing up the requests dispatching order:
> t1:
>
> lock
> rq1 = ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
> t2:
> lock
> rq2 = ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
>
> lock
> rq3 = ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
>
> lock
> rq4 = ops.dispatch_request
> unlock
>
> //rq1,rq3 issue to disk
> // rq2, rq4 issue to disk
>
> In this case, the elevator dispatch order is rq 1-2-3-4, however,
> such order in disk is rq 1-3-2-4, the order for rq2 and rq3 is inversed.
>
> While dispatching request, blk_mq_get_disatpch_budget() and
> blk_mq_get_driver_tag() must be called, and they are not ready to be
> called inside elevator methods, hence introduce a new method like
> dispatch_requests is not possible.
>
> In conclusion, this set factor the global lock out of dispatch_request
> method, and support request batch dispatch by calling the methods
> multiple time while holding the lock.
>
> nullblk setup:
> modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 &&
> udevadm settle &&
> cd /sys/kernel/config/nullb &&
> mkdir nullb0 &&
> cd nullb0 &&
> echo 0 > completion_nsec &&
> echo 512 > blocksize &&
> echo 0 > home_node &&
> echo 0 > irqmode &&
> echo 128 > submit_queues &&
> echo 1024 > hw_queue_depth &&
> echo 1024 > size &&
> echo 0 > memory_backed &&
> echo 2 > queue_mode &&
> echo 1 > power ||
> exit $?
>
> Test script:
> fio -filename=/dev/$disk -name=test -rw=randwrite -bs=4k -iodepth=32 \
> -numjobs=16 --iodepth_batch_submit=8 --iodepth_batch_complete=8 \
> -direct=1 -ioengine=io_uring -group_reporting -time_based -runtime=30
>
> Test result: iops
>
> | | deadline | bfq |
> | --------------- | -------- | -------- |
> | before this set | 263k | 124k |
> | after this set | 475k | 292k |
batch dispatch may hurt io merge performance which is important for
elevator, so please provide test data on real HDD. & SSD., instead of
null_blk only, and it can be perfect if merge sensitive workload
is evaluated.
Thanks,
Ming
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