Il giorno 17 dic 2016, alle ore 01:12, Jens Axboe [off-list ref] ha =

scritto:

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This is version 4 of this patchset, version 3 was posted here:
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https://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-block&m=3D148178513407631&w=3D2
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=46rom the discussion last time, I looked into the feasibility of =

having

two sets of tags for the same request pool, to avoid having to copy
some of the request fields at dispatch and completion time. To do =

that,

we'd have to replace the driver tag map(s) with our own, and augment
that with tag map(s) on the side representing the device queue depth.
Queuing IO with the scheduler would allocate from the new map, and
dispatching would acquire the "real" tag. We would need to change
drivers to do this, or add an extra indirection table to map a real
tag to the scheduler tag. We would also need a 1:1 mapping between
scheduler and hardware tag pools, or additional info to track it.
Unless someone can convince me otherwise, I think the current approach
is cleaner.
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I wasn't going to post v4 so soon, but I discovered a bug that led
to drastically decreased merging. Especially on rotating storage,
this release should be fast, and on par with the merging that we
get through the legacy schedulers.
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I'm to modifying bfq.  You mentioned other missing pieces to come.  Do
you already have an idea of what they are, so that I am somehow
prepared to what won't work even if my changes are right?

Thanks,
Paolo

Changes since v3:
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- Keep the blk_mq_free_request/__blk_mq_free_request() as the
 interface, and have those functions call the scheduler API
 instead.
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- Add insertion merging from unplugging.
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- Ensure that RQF_STARTED is cleared when we get a new shadow
 request, or merging will fail if it is already set.
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- Improve the blk_mq_sched_init_hctx_data() implementation. =46rom =

Omar.

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- Make the shadow alloc/free interface more usable by schedulers
 that use the software queues. =46rom Omar.
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- Fix a bug in the io context code.
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- Put the is_shadow() helper in generic code, instead of in =

mq-deadline.

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- Add prep patch that unexports blk_mq_free_hctx_request(), it's not
 used by anyone.
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- Remove the magic '256' queue depth from mq-deadline, replace with a
 module parameter, 'queue_depth', that defaults to 256.
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- Various cleanups.
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