[PATCH v5 1/2] blk-mq: add tagset quiesce interface

Ming Lei ming.lei at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 21:40:38 EDT 2020


On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:10:21PM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> drivers that have shared tagsets may need to quiesce potentially a lot
> of request queues that all share a single tagset (e.g. nvme). Add an interface
> to quiesce all the queues on a given tagset. This interface is useful because
> it can speedup the quiesce by doing it in parallel.
> 
> For tagsets that have BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING set, we use call_srcu to all hctxs
> in parallel such that all of them wait for the same rcu elapsed period with
> a per-hctx heap allocated rcu_synchronize. for tagsets that don't have
> BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING set, we simply call a single synchronize_rcu as this is
> sufficient.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
> ---
>  block/blk-mq.c         | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/blk-mq.h |  4 +++
>  2 files changed, 70 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index abcf590f6238..c37e37354330 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -209,6 +209,42 @@ void blk_mq_quiesce_queue_nowait(struct request_queue *q)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_quiesce_queue_nowait);
>  
> +static void blk_mq_quiesce_blocking_queue_async(struct request_queue *q)
> +{
> +	struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
> +	unsigned int i;
> +
> +	blk_mq_quiesce_queue_nowait(q);
> +
> +	queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
> +		WARN_ON_ONCE(!(hctx->flags & BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING));
> +		hctx->rcu_sync = kmalloc(sizeof(*hctx->rcu_sync), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!hctx->rcu_sync)
> +			continue;

This approach of quiesce/unquiesce tagset is good abstraction.

Just one more thing, please allocate a rcu_sync array because hctx is supposed
to not store scratch stuff.


thanks, 
Ming




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