Re: [PATCH 2/2] ufs: don't use the fair tag sharings

[Yu Kuai <yukuai1@huaweicloud.com>]

Hi,

在 2023/05/13 2:12, Bart Van Assche 写道:
> The fair tag sharing algorithm has a negative impact on all SCSI devices 
> with multiple logical units. This is because logical units are 
> considered active until (request timeout) seconds have elapsed after the 
> logical unit stopped being used (see also the blk_mq_tag_idle() call in 
> blk_mq_timeout_work()). UFS users are hit by this because UFS 3.0 
> devices have a limited queue depth (32) and because power management 
> commands are submitted to a logical unit (WLUN). Hence, it happens often 
> that the block layer "active queue" counter is equal to 2 while only one 
> logical unit is being used actively (a logical unit backed by NAND 
> flash). The performance difference between queue depths 16 and 32 for 
> UFS devices is significant.

We meet similiar problem before, but I think remove tag fair sharing
might cause some problems, because get tag is not fair currently, for
example 2 devices share 32 tag, while device a issue large amount of
io concurrently, and device b only issue one io, in this case, if fair
tag sharing is removed, device b can get bad io latency.

By the way, I tried to propose a way to workaround this by following:

1) disable fair tag sharing untill get tag found no tag is avaiable;
2) enable fair tag sharing again if the disk donesn't faild to get tag
for a period of time;

Can this approch be considered?

Thanks,
Kuai