Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] dm: support IO polling for bio-based dm device

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 04:52:41PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote:

DM will iterate and poll all polling hardware queues of all target mq
devices when polling IO for dm device. To mitigate the race introduced
by iterating all target hw queues, a per-hw-queue flag is maintained

What is the per-hw-queue flag?

to indicate whether this polling hw queue currently being polled on or
not. Every polling hw queue is exclusive to one polling instance, i.e.,
the polling instance will skip this polling hw queue if this hw queue
currently is being polled by another polling instance, and start
polling on the next hw queue.

Not see such skip in dm_poll_one_dev() in which
queue_for_each_poll_hw_ctx() is called directly for polling all POLL
hctxs of the request queue, so can you explain it a bit more about this
skip mechanism?

Even though such skipping is implemented, not sure if good performance
can be reached because hctx poll may be done in ping-pong style
among several CPUs. But blk-mq hctx is supposed to have its cpu affinities.

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