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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Li Feng <fengli@smartx.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"open list:BLOCK LAYER" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:VIRTIO BLOCK AND SCSI DRIVERS" 
	<virtualization@lists.linux.dev>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: set the default scheduler to none
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 16:19:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231207151917.GA20401@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABgObfYJUH0hF8QfNUAZS9ztR7LqeHGOXeTa0JO904svJw23_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:55:17PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > This seems similar to commit f8b12e513b95 ("virtio_blk: revert
> > QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition") where changing the default sounded good in
> > theory but exposed existing users to performance regressions. [...]
> > I don't want to be overly conservative. The virtio_blk driver has
> > undergone changes in this regard from the legacy block layer to blk-mq
> > (without an I/O scheduler) to blk-mq (mq-deadline).
> 
> IIRC there were also regressions in both virtio-blk and virtio-scsi
> when switching from the legacy block layer to blk-mq. So perhaps I
> *am* a bit more conservative, but based on past experience, this patch
> seems not to be a great idea for practical use cases.

Agreed.  I'm in fact not exactly happy about the rather odd
BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED_BY_DEFAULT flag to start with.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-07 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-07  4:31 [PATCH] virtio_blk: set the default scheduler to none Li Feng
2023-12-07  6:02 ` Jason Wang
2023-12-07  6:32   ` Li Feng
2023-12-07  6:38   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-12-07  6:53 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2023-12-07  7:21   ` Li Feng
2023-12-07  9:48     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2023-12-07 14:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-12-07 14:55   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-12-07 15:19     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-12-08  2:00 ` Ming Lei
2023-12-08  2:44   ` Keith Busch
2023-12-08  3:15     ` Jens Axboe
2023-12-08  3:54     ` Ming Lei
2023-12-08  5:55       ` Li Feng
2023-12-08 11:07         ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-12-25 14:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-12-26  9:01   ` Li Feng
2023-12-26  9:05     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-12-26 12:14       ` Li Feng
2023-12-26 15:38     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-12-27  7:26       ` Li Feng
2023-12-27 10:06         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-12-28  7:25           ` Li Feng

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