[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] block: Delay default elevator initialization

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 05:42:45PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> When elevator_init_mq() is called from blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(),
> the only information known about the device is the number of hardware
> queues as the block device scan by the device driver is not completed
> yet. The device type and the device required features are not set yet,
> preventing to correctly choose the default elevator most suitable for
> the device.
> 
> This currently affects all multi-queue zoned block devices which default
> to the "none" elevator instead of the required "mq-deadline" elevator.
> These drives currently include host-managed SMR disks connected to a
> smartpqi HBA and null_blk block devices with zoned mode enabled.
> Upcoming NVMe Zoned Namespace devices will also be affected.
> 
> Fix this by moving the execution of elevator_init_mq() from
> blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() into __device_add_disk() to allow for the
> device driver to probe the device characteristics and set attributes
> of the device request queue prior to the elevator initialization.
> 
> Also to make sure that the elevator initialization is never done while
> requests are in-flight (there should be none when the device driver
> calls device_add_disk()), freeze and quiesce the device request queue
> before executing blk_mq_init_sched().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal at wdc.com>
> ---
>  block/blk-mq.c   | 2 --
>  block/elevator.c | 7 +++++++
>  block/genhd.c    | 8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index ee4caf0c0807..a37503984206 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -2902,8 +2902,6 @@ struct request_queue *blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
>  	blk_mq_add_queue_tag_set(set, q);
>  	blk_mq_map_swqueue(q);
>  
> -	elevator_init_mq(q);
> -
>  	return q;
>  
>  err_hctxs:
> diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
> index 520d6b224b74..096a670d22d7 100644
> --- a/block/elevator.c
> +++ b/block/elevator.c
> @@ -712,7 +712,14 @@ void elevator_init_mq(struct request_queue *q)
>  	if (!e)
>  		return;
>  
> +	blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
> +	blk_mq_quiesce_queue(q);
> +
>  	err = blk_mq_init_sched(q, e);
> +
> +	blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(q);
> +	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q);
> +
>  	if (err) {
>  		pr_warn("\"%s\" elevator initialization failed, "
>  			"falling back to \"none\"\n", e->elevator_name);
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index 54f1f0d381f4..7380dd7b2257 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -695,6 +695,13 @@ static void __device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
>  	dev_t devt;
>  	int retval;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * The disk queue should now be all set with enough information about
> +	 * the device for the elevator code to pick an adequate default
> +	 * elevator.
> +	 */
> +	elevator_init_mq(disk->queue);
> +

For dm-rq, add_disk_no_queue_reg() is called before blk_mq_init_allocated_queue().

That means this patch actually sets elevator early for dm-rq, and I
guess this way may not work as expected since hw/sw queues aren't allocated
yet.


Thanks,
Ming