From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Khazhy Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>,
Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: Do not merge recursively in elv_attempt_insert_merge()
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 13:53:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210521115354.GJ18952@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YKcB6Hxhe3a1St31@T590>
On Fri 21-05-21 08:42:16, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:33:52AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > 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
>
> Right, but some workload has this kind of pattern.
>
> For example of qemu IO emulation, it often can be thought as single job,
> native aio, direct io with high queue depth. IOs is originated from one VM, but
> may be from multiple jobs in the VM, so bio merge may not hit much because of IO
> emulation timing(virtio-scsi/blk's MQ, or IO can be interleaved from multiple
> jobs via the SQ transport), but request merge can really make a difference, see
> recent patch in the following link:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3f61e939-d95a-1dd1-6870-e66795cfc1b1@suse.de/T/#t
Oh, request merging definitely does make a difference. But the elevator
hash & merge logic I'm modifying here is used only by BFQ and MQ-DEADLINE
AFAICT. And these IO schedulers will already call blk_mq_sched_try_merge()
from their \.bio_merge handler which gets called from blk_mq_submit_bio().
So all the merging that can happen in the code I remove should have already
happened. Or am I missing something?
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-21 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-20 22:33 [PATCH 0/2] block: Fix deadlock when merging requests with BFQ Jan Kara
2021-05-20 22:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: Do not merge recursively in elv_attempt_insert_merge() Jan Kara
2021-05-21 0:42 ` Ming Lei
2021-05-21 11:53 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2021-05-21 13:12 ` Ming Lei
2021-05-21 13:44 ` Jan Kara
2021-05-20 22:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] blk: Fix lock inversion between ioc lock and bfqd lock Jan Kara
2021-05-21 0:57 ` Ming Lei
2021-05-21 3:29 ` Khazhy Kumykov
2021-05-21 6:54 ` Ming Lei
2021-05-21 12:05 ` Jan Kara
2021-05-21 13:36 ` Ming Lei
2021-05-21 13:47 ` Jan Kara
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