Re: [PATCH RFC] scsi: ufs: Disable blk-mq for now
From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Fri Sep 14 2018 - 09:08:54 EST
On 14/09/18 09:17, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 14/09/18 04:52, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 03:15:39PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>> On 13/09/18 15:05, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 02:28:48PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>>>> blk-mq does not support runtime pm, so disable blk-mq support for now.
>>>>
>>>> So could you describe a bit what the issue you are trying to fix?
>>>
>>> UFS is a low-power solution, so we must be able to runtime suspend.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is host level runtime PM you are trying to address, and if blk-mq
>>>> runtime isn't enabled, I guess the host won't be runtime suspended at all
>>>> because some of its descendant are always active.
>>>>
>>>> So seems we need to do nothing for preventing the host controller from
>>>> entering runtime suspend.
>>>
>>> We don't want to prevent the host controller from runtime suspending, quite
>>> the opposite.
>>
>> OK, got it.
>>
>> However, in previous discussion, it is strongly objected to use
>> per-driver/device .use_blk_mq switch, so not sure if this way can
>> be accepted.
>
> It is only needed for 4.19 so far. Otherwise just revert d5038a13eca7
> ("scsi: core: switch to scsi-mq by default")
>
>>
>> BTW, I just posted the runtime PM enablement patches[1] for blk-mq,
>> and I verified that it works fine and passed blktests & xfstest & my
>> other sanity tests, could you try it on UFS?
>>
>> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=153684095523409&w=2
>
> I will give it a go.
Yes it seemed to work fine for UFS
Tested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Obviously, if those patches go in, we wouldn't need to disable blk-mq
> anymore, but that isn't until 4.20 at least.
>