From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A16EC433ED for ; Thu, 20 May 2021 22:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7AF613AC for ; Thu, 20 May 2021 22:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231565AbhETWfZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2021 18:35:25 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39202 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231533AbhETWfY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2021 18:35:24 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90103ABF6; Thu, 20 May 2021 22:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by quack2.suse.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 365C51F2C5D; Fri, 21 May 2021 00:34:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Kara To: Jens Axboe Cc: , Khazhy Kumykov , Paolo Valente , Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH 1/2] block: Do not merge recursively in elv_attempt_insert_merge() Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 00:33:52 +0200 Message-Id: <20210520223353.11561-2-jack@suse.cz> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.26.2 In-Reply-To: <20210520223353.11561-1-jack@suse.cz> References: <20210520223353.11561-1-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Most of the merging happens at bio level. There should not be much merging happening at request level anymore. Furthermore if we backmerged a request to the previous one, the chances to be able to merge the result to even previous request are slim - that could succeed only if requests were inserted in 2 1 3 order. Merging more requests in elv_attempt_insert_merge() will be difficult to handle when we want to pass requests to free back to the caller of blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge(). So just remove the possibility of merging multiple requests in elv_attempt_insert_merge(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- block/elevator.c | 19 +++++-------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c index 440699c28119..098f4bd226f5 100644 --- a/block/elevator.c +++ b/block/elevator.c @@ -350,12 +350,11 @@ enum elv_merge elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, * we can append 'rq' to an existing request, so we can throw 'rq' away * afterwards. * - * Returns true if we merged, false otherwise + * Returns true if we merged, false otherwise. */ bool elv_attempt_insert_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) { struct request *__rq; - bool ret; if (blk_queue_nomerges(q)) return false; @@ -369,21 +368,13 @@ bool elv_attempt_insert_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) if (blk_queue_noxmerges(q)) return false; - ret = false; /* * See if our hash lookup can find a potential backmerge. */ - while (1) { - __rq = elv_rqhash_find(q, blk_rq_pos(rq)); - if (!__rq || !blk_attempt_req_merge(q, __rq, rq)) - break; - - /* The merged request could be merged with others, try again */ - ret = true; - rq = __rq; - } - - return ret; + __rq = elv_rqhash_find(q, blk_rq_pos(rq)); + if (!__rq || !blk_attempt_req_merge(q, __rq, rq)) + return false; + return true; } void elv_merged_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq, -- 2.26.2