RE: [PATCH] scsi: storvsc: Correctly set number of hardware queues for IDE disk

From: Michael Kelley
Date: Sun Jan 12 2020 - 11:29:00 EST


From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 12:17 AM
>
> Commit 0ed881027690 ("scsi: storvsc: setup 1:1 mapping between hardware queue and
> CPU queue")
> introduced a regression for disks attached to IDE. For these disks the host VSP only offers
> one VMBUS channel. Setting multiple queues can overload the VMBUS channel and result
> in
> performance drop for high queue depth workload on system with large number of CPUs.
>
> Fix it by leaving the number of hardware queues to 1 (default value) for IDE
> disks.
>
> Fixes: 0ed881027690 ("scsi: storvsc: setup 1:1 mapping between hardware queue and CPU
> queue")
> Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> index f8faf8b3d965..992b28e40374 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> @@ -1842,9 +1842,11 @@ static int storvsc_probe(struct hv_device *device,
> */
> host->sg_tablesize = (stor_device->max_transfer_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> /*
> + * For non-IDE disks, the host supports multiple channels.
> * Set the number of HW queues we are supporting.
> */
> - host->nr_hw_queues = num_present_cpus();
> + if (dev_id->driver_data != IDE_GUID)

This function already has a pre-computed value of this test in
the local variable "dev_is_ide". It would be more consistent
to just use it.

Michael

> + host->nr_hw_queues = num_present_cpus();
>
> /*
> * Set the error handler work queue.
> --
> 2.20.1