[dm-devel] [PATCH V3 2/5] dm-mpath: return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in case of rq allocation failure

[Ming Lei]

blk-mq will rerun queue via RESTART or dispatch wake after one request
is completed, so not necessary to wait random time for requeuing, we
should trust blk-mq to do it.

More importantly, we need return BLK_STS_RESOURCE to blk-mq so that
dequeue from I/O scheduler can be stopped, then I/O merge gets improved.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 86bf502a8e51..fcddf5a62581 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -533,8 +533,20 @@ static int multipath_clone_and_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct request *rq,
 		if (queue_dying) {
 			atomic_inc(&m->pg_init_in_progress);
 			activate_or_offline_path(pgpath);
+			return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE;
 		}
-		return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE;
+
+		/*
+		 * blk-mq's SCHED_RESTART can cover this requeue, so
+		 * we needn't to deal with it by DELAY_REQUEUE. More
+		 * importantly, we have to return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE
+		 * so that blk-mq can get the queue busy feedback,
+		 * otherwise I/O merge can be hurt.
+		 */
+		if (q->mq_ops)
+			return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE;
+		else
+			return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE;
 	}
 	clone->bio = clone->biotail = NULL;
 	clone->rq_disk = bdev->bd_disk;
-- 
2.9.5