[PATCH V2 01/20] blk-mq-sched: fix scheduler bad performance

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

When hw queue is busy, we shouldn't take requests from
scheduler queue any more, otherwise IO merge will be
difficult to do.

This patch fixes the awful IO performance on some
SCSI devices(lpfc, qla2xxx, ...) when mq-deadline/kyber
is used by not taking requests if hw queue is busy.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
---
 block/blk-mq-sched.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index 4ab69435708c..845e5baf8af1 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 	struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue;
 	struct elevator_queue *e = q->elevator;
 	const bool has_sched_dispatch = e && e->type->ops.mq.dispatch_request;
-	bool did_work = false;
+	bool do_sched_dispatch = true;
 	LIST_HEAD(rq_list);
 
 	/* RCU or SRCU read lock is needed before checking quiesced flag */
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 	 */
 	if (!list_empty(&rq_list)) {
 		blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx);
-		did_work = blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
+		do_sched_dispatch = blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
 	} else if (!has_sched_dispatch) {
 		blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(hctx, &rq_list);
 		blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list);
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 	 * on the dispatch list, OR if we did have work but weren't able
 	 * to make progress.
 	 */
-	if (!did_work && has_sched_dispatch) {
+	if (do_sched_dispatch && has_sched_dispatch) {
 		do {
 			struct request *rq;
 
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2.9.4