[dm-devel] [PATCH V3 1/5] dm-mpath: don't call blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() in case of BLK_STS_RESOURCE

[Ming Lei]

If .queue_rq() returns BLK_STS_RESOURCE, blk-mq will rerun the queue in
the three situations:

1) if BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART is set
- queue is rerun after one rq is completed, see blk_mq_sched_restart()
which is run from blk_mq_free_request()

2) run out of driver tag
- queue is rerun after one tag is freed

3) otherwise
- queue is run immediately in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()

This random dealy of running hw queue is introduced by commit 6077c2d706097c0
(dm rq: Avoid that request processing stalls sporadically), which claimed
one request processing stalling is fixed, but never explained the behind
idea, and it is a workaound at most. Even the question isn't explained by
anyone in recent discussion.

Also calling blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() inside .queue_rq() is a horrible
hack because it makes BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART not working, and degrades I/O
peformance a lot.

Finally this patch makes sure that dm-rq returns BLK_STS_RESOURCE to blk-mq
only when underlying queue is out of resource, so we switch to return
DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEU if either MPATHF_QUEUE_IO or MPATHF_PG_INIT_REQUIRED
is set in multipath_clone_and_map().

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 5 ++---
 drivers/md/dm-rq.c    | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index f7810cc869ac..86bf502a8e51 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -516,9 +516,8 @@ static int multipath_clone_and_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct request *rq,
 		return DM_MAPIO_KILL;
 	} else if (test_bit(MPATHF_QUEUE_IO, &m->flags) ||
 		   test_bit(MPATHF_PG_INIT_REQUIRED, &m->flags)) {
-		if (pg_init_all_paths(m))
-			return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE;
-		return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE;
+		pg_init_all_paths(m);
+		return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE;
 	}
 
 	memset(mpio, 0, sizeof(*mpio));
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-rq.c b/drivers/md/dm-rq.c
index 3b319776d80c..4d157b14d302 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-rq.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-rq.c
@@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ static blk_status_t dm_mq_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 		/* Undo dm_start_request() before requeuing */
 		rq_end_stats(md, rq);
 		rq_completed(md, rq_data_dir(rq), false);
-		blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(hctx, 100/*ms*/);
 		return BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
 	}
 
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2.9.5