blk-mq: insert flush request to the front of dispatch queue
commit 01e99aec ("blk-mq: insert passthrough request into hctx->dispatch directly") may change to add flush request to the tail of dispatch by applying the 'add_head' parameter of blk_mq_sched_insert_request. Turns out this way causes performance regression on NCQ controller because flush is non-NCQ command, which can't be queued when there is any in-flight NCQ command. When adding flush rq to the front of hctx->dispatch, it is easier to introduce extra time to flush rq's latency compared with adding to the tail of dispatch queue because of S_SCHED_RESTART, then chance of flush merge is increased, and less flush requests may be issued to controller. So always insert flush request to the front of dispatch queue just like before applying commit 01e99aec ("blk-mq: insert passthrough request into hctx->dispatch directly"). Cc: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com> Cc: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com> Reported-by: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com> Fixes: 01e99aec ("blk-mq: insert passthrough request into hctx->dispatch directly") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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