Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: set the default scheduler to none

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2023-12-07T09:48:12Z

On 12/6/2023 11:21 PM, Li Feng wrote:
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>> On Dec 7, 2023, at 14:53, Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/6/23 20:31, Li Feng wrote:
>>> virtio-blk is generally used in cloud computing scenarios, where the
>>> performance of virtual disks is very important. The mq-deadline scheduler
>>> has a big performance drop compared to none with single queue. In my tests,
>>> mq-deadline 4k readread iops were 270k compared to 450k for none. So here
>>> the default scheduler of virtio-blk is set to "none".
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Li Feng <fengli@smartx.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>
>> This patch looks good to me, however I'd update the commit log and add
>> performance numbers for the non-mq case also, just in-case to show that we
>> are not breaking non-mq setup.
>>
>> Being said that, in case we want to be future proof, we can also think of
>> adding a module param so if someone comes with a scenario where NO_SCHED is
>> not providing the performance then they can just use the module parameter
>> instead of again editing the code, irrespective of that :-
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
>>
>> -ck
>
> Hi ck,
>
> What I put above(450k vs 270k) is the data of single queue(non-mq). I think
> we don’t need to add module parameters because the scheduler can be modified
> through sysfs.
>
> Thanks.

okay.

-ck