[PATCH RFT 0/3] blk-mq: Optimise blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() for shared tags

John Garry
2021-11-02T11:32:55Z

In [0], Kashyap reports high CPU usage for blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter()
and callees for shared tags.

Indeed blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() would be less optimum for moving to
shared tags, but it was not optimum previously.

So I would like this series tested, and also to know what is triggering
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() from userspace to cause such high CPU
loading.

As suggested by Ming, reading /proc/diskstats in a while true loop
can trigger blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(); I do so in a test with 2x
separate consoles, and here are the results:

v5.15
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() 6.2%
part_stat_read_all() 6.7

pre-v5.16 (Linus' master branch @ commit bfc484fe6abb)
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() 4.5%
part_stat_read_all() 6.2

pre-v5.16+this series
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() not shown in top users
part_stat_read_all() 7.5%

These results are from perf top, on a system with 7x
disks, with hisi_sas which has 16x HW queues.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/e4e92abbe9d52bcba6b8cc6c91c442cc@mail.gmail.com/

John Garry (3):
blk-mq: Drop busy_iter_fn blk_mq_hw_ctx argument
blk-mq: Delete busy_iter_fn
blk-mq: Optimise blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() for shared tags

block/blk-mq-tag.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
block/blk-mq-tag.h | 2 +-
block/blk-mq.c | 17 ++++++-------
include/linux/blk-mq.h | 2 --
4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

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