Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] blk-mq: Reduce static requests memory footprint for shared sbitmap

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 09/08/2021 15:29, John Garry wrote:

Hi guys,

Any chance to review or test this?

Thanks!

> Currently a full set of static requests are allocated per hw queue per
> tagset when shared sbitmap is used.
> 
> However, only tagset->queue_depth number of requests may be active at
> any given time. As such, only tagset->queue_depth number of static
> requests are required.
> 
> The same goes for using an IO scheduler, which allocates a full set of
> static requests per hw queue per request queue.
> 
> This series changes shared sbitmap support by using a shared tags per
> tagset and request queue. Ming suggested something along those lines in
> v1. But we'll keep name "shared sbitmap" name as it is fimilar. In using
> a shared tags, the static rqs also become shared, reducing the number of
> sets of static rqs, reducing memory usage.
> 
> Patch "blk-mq: Use shared tags for shared sbitmap support" is a bit big,
> and could be broken down. But then maintaining ability to bisect
> becomes harder and each sub-patch would get more convoluted.
> 
> For megaraid sas driver on my 128-CPU arm64 system with 1x SATA disk, we
> save approx. 300MB(!) [370MB -> 60MB]
> 
> Baseline is 2112f5c1330a (for-5.15/block) loop: Select I/O scheduler ...
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Switch to use blk_mq_tags for shared sbitmap
> - Add new blk_mq_ops init request callback
> - Add some RB tags (thanks!)
> 
> John Garry (11):
>    blk-mq: Change rqs check in blk_mq_free_rqs()
>    block: Rename BLKDEV_MAX_RQ -> BLKDEV_DEFAULT_RQ
>    blk-mq: Relocate shared sbitmap resize in blk_mq_update_nr_requests()
>    blk-mq: Invert check in blk_mq_update_nr_requests()
>    blk-mq-sched: Rename blk_mq_sched_alloc_{tags -> map_and_request}()
>    blk-mq: Pass driver tags to blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping()
>    blk-mq: Add blk_mq_tag_update_sched_shared_sbitmap()
>    blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.init_request_no_hctx()
>    scsi: Set blk_mq_ops.init_request_no_hctx
>    blk-mq: Use shared tags for shared sbitmap support
>    blk-mq: Stop using pointers for blk_mq_tags bitmap tags
> 
>   block/bfq-iosched.c      |   4 +-
>   block/blk-core.c         |   2 +-
>   block/blk-mq-debugfs.c   |   8 +--
>   block/blk-mq-sched.c     |  92 +++++++++++++------------
>   block/blk-mq-sched.h     |   2 +-
>   block/blk-mq-tag.c       | 111 +++++++++++++-----------------
>   block/blk-mq-tag.h       |  12 ++--
>   block/blk-mq.c           | 144 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>   block/blk-mq.h           |   8 +--
>   block/kyber-iosched.c    |   4 +-
>   block/mq-deadline-main.c |   2 +-
>   drivers/block/rbd.c      |   2 +-
>   drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c  |   6 +-
>   include/linux/blk-mq.h   |  20 +++---
>   include/linux/blkdev.h   |   5 +-
>   15 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
>