Re: [PATCH 0/2] block/SCSI MQ: two RESTART related patches

From: Ming Lei
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 01:12:37 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 01:04:16PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> The 1st patch runs idle hctx after dealy in scsi_mq_get_budget(),
> so that we can keep same behaviour with before, and it can be
> thought as a fix.
>
> The 2nd patch cleans up RESTART, and removes handling for TAG_SHARED
> from current blk-mq's RESTART mechanism because SCSI_MQ can covers its
> restart by itself, so that no need to handle TAG_SHARED in blk-mq
> RESTART. And >20% IOPS boost is observed in my rand read test over
> scsi_debug.
>
> John, please test this two patches and see if it may improve your SAS
> IO performance, and you can find the two patches in the following branch:
>
> https://github.com/ming1/linux/commits/blk_mq_improve_restart_V1

Forget to mention, you need to either pull the above branch directly
or apply the two patches against for-next branch of Jens' block
tree:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git #for-next

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Ming