Commit 32825c45 authored Jul 03, 2017 by Ming Lei Committed by Jens Axboe Jul 03, 2017

blk-mq-sched: fix performance regression of mq-deadline



When mq-deadline is taken, IOPS of sequential read and
seqential write is observed more than 20% drop on sata(scsi-mq)
devices, compared with using 'none' scheduler.

The reason is that the default nr_requests for scheduler is
too big for small queuedepth devices, and latency is increased
much.

Since the principle of taking 256 requests for mq scheduler
is based on 128 queue depth, this patch changes into
double size of min(hw queue_depth, 128).

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

parent 431b17f9

block/blk-mq-sched.c

+5 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -515,10 +515,12 @@ int blk_mq_init_sched(struct request_queue q, struct elevator_type e)
		}

		/*
		* Default to 256, since we don't split into sync/async like the
		* old code did. Additionally, this is a per-hw queue depth.
		* Default to double of smaller one between hw queue_depth and 128,
		* since we don't split into sync/async like the old code did.
		* Additionally, this is a per-hw queue depth.
		*/
		q->nr_requests = 2 * BLKDEV_MAX_RQ;
		q->nr_requests = 2 * min_t(unsigned int, q->tag_set->queue_depth,
		BLKDEV_MAX_RQ);

		queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
		ret = blk_mq_sched_alloc_tags(q, hctx, i);

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