blk-mq: support batching dispatch in case of io
More and more drivers want to get batching requests queued from
block layer, such as mmc, and tcp based storage drivers. Also
current in-tree users have virtio-scsi, virtio-blk and nvme.
For none, we already support batching dispatch.
But for io scheduler, every time we just take one request from scheduler
and pass the single request to blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). This way makes
batching dispatch not possible when io scheduler is applied. One reason
is that we don't want to hurt sequential IO performance, becasue IO
merge chance is reduced if more requests are dequeued from scheduler
queue.
Try to support batching dispatch for io scheduler by starting with the
following simple approach:
1) still make sure we can get budget before dequeueing request
2) use hctx->dispatch_busy to evaluate if queue is busy, if it is busy
we fackback to non-batching dispatch, otherwise dequeue as many as
possible requests from scheduler, and pass them to blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list().
Wrt. 2), we use similar policy for none, and turns out that SCSI SSD
performance got improved much.
In future, maybe we can develop more intelligent algorithem for batching
dispatch.
Baolin has tested this patch and found that MMC performance is improved[3].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20200512075501.GF1531898@T590/#r
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/fe6bd8b9-6ed9-b225-f80c-314746133722@grimberg.me/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CADBw62o9eTQDJ9RvNgEqSpXmg6Xcq=2TxH0Hfxhp29uF2W=TXA@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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