Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 3 authors, 2017-11-28

Re: [PATCH V14 14/24] mmc: block: Add CQE support

From: Ulf Hansson <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-28 11:21:03
Also in: linux-mmc, lkml

On 21 November 2017 at 14:42, Adrian Hunter [off-list ref] wrote:
Add CQE support to the block driver, including:
    - optionally using DCMD for flush requests
    - "manually" issuing discard requests
    - issuing read / write requests to the CQE
    - supporting block-layer timeouts
    - handling recovery
    - supporting re-tuning

CQE offers 25% - 50% better random multi-threaded I/O.  There is a slight
(e.g. 2%) drop in sequential read speed but no observable change to sequential
write.

CQE automatically sends the commands to complete requests.  However it only
supports reads / writes and so-called "direct commands" (DCMD).  Furthermore
DCMD is limited to one command at a time, but discards require 3 commands.
That makes issuing discards through CQE very awkward, but some CQE's don't
support DCMD anyway.  So for discards, the existing non-CQE approach is
taken, where the mmc core code issues the 3 commands one at a time i.e.
mmc_erase(). Where DCMD is used, is for issuing flushes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
This looks good to me!

I only have one, very minor comment.

[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -370,10 +514,14 @@ static int mmc_mq_init_queue(struct mmc_queue *mq, int q_depth,
 static int mmc_mq_init(struct mmc_queue *mq, struct mmc_card *card,
                         spinlock_t *lock)
 {
+       struct mmc_host *host = card->host;
        int q_depth;
        int ret;

-       q_depth = MMC_QUEUE_DEPTH;
+       if (mq->use_cqe)
+               q_depth = min_t(int, card->ext_csd.cmdq_depth, host->cqe_qdepth);
To make it clear why this is needed, could you please add some comment
in the code?

As I was trying to point out in the other reply about queue depth, for
patch 13, this is weird to me.
This may mean that we end up using queue_depth being less than
MMC_QUEUE_DEPTH (64) for the CQE case. While in fact, in the CQE case
the HW actually supports a bigger queue depth, comparing when not
using CQE.

Anyway, it seems like that will have to be a separate topic to discuss
with the blkmq experts.
+       else
+               q_depth = MMC_QUEUE_DEPTH;
[...]

Kind regards
Uffe
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