Re: [PATCH] block: BFQ default for single queue devices

Linus Walleij
2018-10-03T06:53:37Z

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:29 AM Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> wrote:

> So, I do understand your need for conservativeness, but, after so much
> evidence on single-queue devices, and so many years! :), what's the
> point in keeping Linux worse for virtually everybody, by default?

I understand if we need to ease things in as well, I don't intend this
change for the current merge window or anything, since v4.19
will notably have this patch:

commit d5038a13eca72fb216c07eb717169092e92284f1
Author: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Date: Wed Jul 4 10:53:56 2018 +0200

scsi: core: switch to scsi-mq by default

It has been more than one year since we tried to change the default from
legacy to multi queue in SCSI with commit c279bd9e406 ("scsi: default to
scsi-mq"). But due to issues with suspend/resume and performance problems
it had been reverted again with commit cbe7dfa26eee ("Revert "scsi: default
to scsi-mq"").

In the meantime there have been a substantial amount of performance
improvements and suspend/resume got fixed as well, thus we can re-enable
scsi-mq without a significant performance penalty.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

I guess that patch can be a bit scary by itself. But IIUC it all went
fine this time!

But hey, if that works, that means $SUBJECT patch will enable BFQ on all
libata devices and any SCSI that is single queue as well, not just
"obscure" stuff like MMC/SD and UBI, and that is
indeed a massive crowd of legacy devices. But we're talking
v4.21 here.

Johannes, you might be interested in $SUBJECT patch.
It'd be nice to hear what SUSE people have to add, since they
are pretty proactive in this area.

Yours,
Linus Walleij