[PATCH] Block SQ/MQ Request Priority

[PATCH] Block SQ/MQ Request Priority

[adam.manzanares]

From: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com>

In 4.10 I introduced a patch that associates the ioc priority with
each request in the block layer. This work was done in the single queue
block layer code. This patch unifies ioc priority to request mapping across
the single/multi queue block layers.

I have tested this patch with the null block device driver with the following
parameters.

null_blk queue_mode=2 irqmode=0 use_per_node_hctx=1 nr_devices=1

I have not seen a performance regression with this patch and I would appreciate
any feedback or additional testing.

I have also verified that io priorities are passed to the device when using
the SQ and MQ path to a SATA HDD that supports io priorities.

Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com>
---
 block/blk-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 43b7d06..316a539 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1149,7 +1149,6 @@ static struct request *__get_request(struct request_list *rl, unsigned int op,
 
 	blk_rq_init(q, rq);
 	blk_rq_set_rl(rq, rl);
-	blk_rq_set_prio(rq, ioc);
 	rq->cmd_flags = op;
 	rq->rq_flags = rq_flags;
 
@@ -1636,6 +1635,7 @@ void init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio)
 
 	req->errors = 0;
 	req->__sector = bio->bi_iter.bi_sector;
+	blk_rq_set_prio(req, rq_ioc(bio));
 	if (ioprio_valid(bio_prio(bio)))
 		req->ioprio = bio_prio(bio);
 	blk_rq_bio_prep(req->q, req, bio);
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH] Block SQ/MQ Request Priority

[Bart Van Assche]

On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 08:25 -0700, adam.manzanares@wdc.com wrote:
> 

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>

Re: [PATCH] Block SQ/MQ Request Priority

[Jens Axboe]

On 04/04/2017 09:25 AM, adam.manzanares@wdc.com wrote:
> From: Adam Manzanares <adam.manzanares@wdc.com>
> 
> In 4.10 I introduced a patch that associates the ioc priority with
> each request in the block layer. This work was done in the single queue
> block layer code. This patch unifies ioc priority to request mapping across
> the single/multi queue block layers.
> 
> I have tested this patch with the null block device driver with the following
> parameters.
> 
> null_blk queue_mode=2 irqmode=0 use_per_node_hctx=1 nr_devices=1
> 
> I have not seen a performance regression with this patch and I would appreciate
> any feedback or additional testing.
> 
> I have also verified that io priorities are passed to the device when using
> the SQ and MQ path to a SATA HDD that supports io priorities.

Applied, with an updated subject line, it didn't really describe what
the patch does. Thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe