Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] blk-mq-sched: support request batch dispatching for sq elevator

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 04:42:10PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 在 2025/07/31 16:18, Ming Lei 写道:
> > batch dispatch may hurt io merge performance which is important for
> > elevator, so please provide test data on real HDD. & SSD., instead of
> > null_blk only, and it can be perfect if merge sensitive workload
> > is evaluated.
> 
> Ok, I'll provide test data on HDD and SSD that I have for now.
> 
> For the elevator IO merge case, what I have in mind is that we issue
> small sequential IO one by one with multiple contexts, so that bios
> won't be merged in plug, and this will require IO issue > IO done, is
> this case enough?

Long time ago, I investigated one such issue which is triggered in qemu
workload, but not sure if I can find it now.

Also many scsi devices may easily run into queue busy, then scheduler merge
starts to work, and it may perform worse if you dispatch more in this
situation.

Thanks,
Ming