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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:53:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191021125327.GA25864@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c98c0cd5-950d-5404-eeaf-4e4ed6c86acc@huawei.com>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:49:53PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, we share tags among all queues, but we generate the tag - known as IPTT
> > > - in the LLDD now, as we can no longer use the request tag (as it is not
> > > unique per all queues):
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/hisilicon/kernel-dev/commit/087b95af374be6965583c1673032fb33bc8127e8#diff-f5d8fff19bc539a7387af5230d4e5771R188
> > > 
> > > As I said, the branch is messy and I did have to fix 087b95af374.
> > 
> > Firstly this way may waste lots of memory, especially the queue depth is
> > big, such as, hisilicon V3's queue depth is 4096.
> > 
> > Secondly, you have to deal with queue busy efficiently and correctly,
> > for example, your real hw tags(IPTT) can be used up easily, and how
> > will you handle these dispatched request?
> 
> I have not seen scenario of exhausted IPTT. And IPTT count is same as SCSI
> host.can_queue, so SCSI midlayer should ensure that this does not occur.

That check isn't correct, and each hw queue should have allowed
.can_queue in-flight requests.

> 
> > 
> > Finally, you have to evaluate the performance effect, this is highly
> > related with how to deal with out-of-IPTT.
> 
> Some figures from our previous testing:
> 
> Managed interrupt without exposing multiple queues: 3M IOPs
> Managed interrupt with exposing multiple queues: 2.6M IOPs

Then you see the performance regression.


Thanks,
Ming


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-21 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-14  1:50 [PATCH V4 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug Ming Lei
2019-10-14  1:50 ` [PATCH V4 1/5] blk-mq: add new state of BLK_MQ_S_INTERNAL_STOPPED Ming Lei
2019-10-14  1:50 ` [PATCH V4 2/5] blk-mq: prepare for draining IO when hctx's all CPUs are offline Ming Lei
2019-10-14  1:50 ` [PATCH V4 3/5] blk-mq: stop to handle IO and drain IO before hctx becomes dead Ming Lei
2019-11-28  9:29   ` John Garry
2019-10-14  1:50 ` [PATCH V4 4/5] blk-mq: re-submit IO in case that hctx is dead Ming Lei
2019-10-14  1:50 ` [PATCH V4 5/5] blk-mq: handle requests dispatched from IO scheduler " Ming Lei
2019-10-16  8:58 ` [PATCH V4 0/5] blk-mq: improvement on handling IO during CPU hotplug John Garry
2019-10-16 12:07   ` Ming Lei
2019-10-16 16:19     ` John Garry
     [not found]       ` <55a84ea3-647d-0a76-596c-c6c6b2fc1b75@huawei.com>
2019-10-20 10:14         ` Ming Lei
2019-10-21  9:19           ` John Garry
2019-10-21  9:34             ` Ming Lei
2019-10-21  9:47               ` John Garry
2019-10-21 10:24                 ` Ming Lei
2019-10-21 11:49                   ` John Garry
2019-10-21 12:53                     ` Ming Lei [this message]
2019-10-21 14:02                       ` John Garry
2019-10-22  0:16                         ` Ming Lei
2019-10-22 11:19                           ` John Garry
2019-10-22 13:45                             ` Ming Lei
2019-10-25 16:33             ` John Garry
2019-10-28 10:42               ` Ming Lei
2019-10-28 11:55                 ` John Garry
2019-10-29  1:50                   ` Ming Lei
2019-10-29  9:22                     ` John Garry
2019-10-29 10:05                       ` Ming Lei
2019-10-29 17:54                         ` John Garry
2019-10-31 16:28                         ` John Garry
2019-11-28  1:09 ` chenxiang (M)
2019-11-28  2:02   ` Ming Lei
2019-11-28 10:45     ` John Garry

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