Re: [PATCH RFT 0/3] blk-mq: Optimise blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() for shared tags

[John Garry]

On 25/11/2021 13:46, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> > John -
> >
> > I will try something this week and let you know.
> John - I tested patchset and looks good.  Issue reported at below thread is
> fixed.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/e4e92abbe9d52bcba6b8cc6c91c442cc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Here is perf top data.
>
> 5.70%  [megaraid_sas]                [k] complete_cmd_fusion
>     3.80%  [megaraid_sas]                [k]
> megasas_build_and_issue_cmd_fusion
>     2.75%  [kernel]                      [k] syscall_return_via_sysret
>     2.68%  [kernel]                      [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
>     2.22%  [kernel]                      [k] io_submit_one
>     2.19%  [megaraid_sas]                [k] megasas_build_ldio_fusion
>     1.95%  [kernel]                      [k] llist_add_batch
>     1.80%  [kernel]                      [k] llist_reverse_order
>     1.79%  [kernel]                      [k] scsi_complete
>     1.73%  [kernel]                      [k] scsi_queue_rq
>     1.66%  [kernel]                      [k] check_preemption_disabled
>     1.37%  [megaraid_sas]                [k] megasas_queue_command
>     1.16%  [kernel]                      [k] native_irq_return_iret
>     1.11%  [kernel]                      [k] aio_complete_rw
>     1.07%  [kernel]                      [k] read_tsc
>     1.06%  fio                           [.] __fio_gettime
>     1.05%  [kernel]                      [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue
>     1.03%  [kernel]                      [k] blk_complete_reqs
>     1.00%  [kernel]                      [k] blk_mq_free_request
>     0.98%  [kernel]                      [k] sbitmap_get
>
>
> I will continue testing and let you know how it goes.

ok, good to know, thanks. But I would still like to know what is 
triggering blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() so often. Indeed, as mentioned 
in this cover letter, this function was hardly optimised before for 
shared sbitmap.

And any opinion whether we would want this as a fix? Information 
requested above would help explain why we would need it as a fix.

Cheers,
John