[LSF/MM TOPIC] Two blk-mq related topics

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Jan 29 2018 at 10:46am -0500,
Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com> wrote:
 
> 2. When to enable SCSI_MQ at default again?
> 
> SCSI_MQ is enabled on V3.17 firstly, but disabled at default. In V4.13-rc1,
> it is enabled at default, but later the patch is reverted in V4.13-rc7, and
> becomes disabled at default too.
> 
> Now both the original reported PM issue(actually SCSI quiesce) and the
> sequential IO performance issue have been addressed. And MQ IO schedulers
> are ready too for traditional disks. Are there other issues to be addressed
> for enabling SCSI_MQ at default? When can we do that again?
> 
> Last time, the two issues were reported during V4.13 dev cycle just when it is
> enabled at default, that seems if SCSI_MQ isn't enabled at default, it wouldn't
> be exposed to run/tested completely & fully.  
> 
> So if we continue to disable it at default, maybe it can never be exposed to
> full test/production environment.

I was going to propose revisiting this as well.

I'd really like to see all the old .request_fn block core code removed.

But maybe we take a first step of enabling:
CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT=Y
CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT=Y

Thanks,
Mike