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    blk-mq-sched: improve dispatching from sw queue · b347689f
    Ming Lei authored
    SCSI devices use host-wide tagset, and the shared driver tag space is
    often quite big. However, there is also a queue depth for each lun(
    .cmd_per_lun), which is often small, for example, on both lpfc and
    qla2xxx, .cmd_per_lun is just 3.
    
    So lots of requests may stay in sw queue, and we always flush all
    belonging to same hw queue and dispatch them all to driver.
    Unfortunately it is easy to cause queue busy because of the small
    .cmd_per_lun.  Once these requests are flushed out, they have to stay in
    hctx->dispatch, and no bio merge can happen on these requests, and
    sequential IO performance is harmed.
    
    This patch introduces blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx for dequeuing a request
    from a sw queue, so that we can dispatch them in scheduler's way. We can
    then avoid dequeueing too many requests from sw queue, since we don't
    flush ->dispatch completely.
    
    This patch improves dispatching from sw queue by using the .get_budget
    and .put_budget callbacks.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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