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

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 11/2/21 12:27 PM, John Garry wrote:
> Kashyap reports high CPU usage in blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() and callees
> using megaraid SAS RAID card since moving to shared tags [0].
>
> Previously, when shared tags was shared sbitmap, this function was less
> than optimum since we would iter through all tags for all hctx's,
> yet only ever match upto tagset depth number of rqs.
>
> Since the change to shared tags, things are even less efficient if we have
> parallel callers of blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(). This is because in
> bt_iter() -> blk_mq_find_and_get_req() there would be more contention on
> accessing each request ref and tags->lock since they are now shared among
> all HW queues.
>
> Optimise by having separate calls to bt_for_each() for when we're using
> shared tags. In this case no longer pass a hctx, as it is no longer
> relevant, and teach bt_iter() about this.
>
> Ming suggested something along the lines of this change, apart from a
> different implementation.
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/e4e92abbe9d52bcba6b8cc6c91c442cc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   block/blk-mq-tag.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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