Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 5 authors, 2018-08-08

Re: [RFC PATCH 09/14] SCSI: create admin queue for each host

From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-08-08 07:11:51

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:57 PM, jianchao.wang
[off-list ref] wrote:
Hi Ming

On 08/08/2018 01:44 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
quoted
+static struct request_queue *scsi_mq_alloc_admin_queue(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
+{
+     struct request_queue *q = __blk_mq_init_queue(&shost->tag_set,
+                     QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_NO_SCHED_DEFAULT);
+     if (IS_ERR(q))
+             return NULL;
+
+     q->mq_ops = &scsi_mq_admin_ops;
+
+     __scsi_init_queue(shost, q);
+
+     return q;
+}
In your patch set, the logical adminq per host is standalone request_queue which share
the tagset with other request_queue.

Due to the hctx_may_queue,
If only one LUN, the adminq will take away half of the driver tags when
the adminq is active.
Most of times, the admin queue is inactive, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
And when multiple LUNs, all of the LUNs have to share the limited budget of tags
of the adminq.
This is unacceptable.
That can be solved easily, such as, let __blk_mq_tag_busy() not take
account of admin queue, will do it in V2.
And also, not all the admin request is send out through scsi_execute, maybe SG_IO.
So the admin queue here looks more like the pm queue ?
SG_IO should be covered by IO queue in which SCSI_PASSTHROUGH
is enabled. It is reasonable too since SG_IO can be normal IO from
userspace.

thanks,
Ming Lei
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