Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V10 0/8] blk-mq-sched: improve sequential I/O performance | From | Jens Axboe <> | Date | Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:39:21 -0600 |
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On 10/14/2017 03:22 AM, Ming Lei wrote: > Hi Jens, > > In Red Hat internal storage test wrt. blk-mq scheduler, we found that I/O > performance is much bad with mq-deadline, especially about sequential I/O > on some multi-queue SCSI devcies(lpfc, qla2xxx, SRP...) > > Turns out one big issue causes the performance regression: requests are > still dequeued from sw queue/scheduler queue even when ldd's queue is > busy, so I/O merge becomes quite difficult to make, then sequential IO > performance degrades a lot. > > This issue becomes one of mains reasons for reverting default SCSI_MQ > in V4.13. > > This 8 patches improve this situation, and brings back performance loss. > > With this change, SCSI-MQ sequential I/O performance is improved much, Paolo > reported that mq-deadline performance improved much[2] in his dbench test > wrt V2. Also performance improvement on lpfc/qla2xx was observed with V1.[1]
Looks good to me, and the kyber fix looks obviously correct to me. I have applied this series for 4.15. Thanks Ming.
-- Jens Axboe
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