[PATCH 15/15] nvme-multipath: enable polled I/O
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Wed May 12 15:10:58 PDT 2021
> Set the poll queue flag to enable polling, given that the multipath
> node just dispatches the bios to a lower queue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
> drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
> index 516fe977606d..e95b93655d06 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
> @@ -446,6 +446,15 @@ int nvme_mpath_alloc_disk(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_ns_head *head)
> goto out;
> blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
> blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, q);
> + /*
> + * This assumes all controllers that refer to a namespace either
> + * support poll queues or not. That is not a strict guarantee,
> + * but if the assumption is wrong the effect is only suboptimal
> + * performance but not correctness problem.
> + */
> + if (ctrl->tagset->nr_maps > HCTX_TYPE_POLL &&
> + ctrl->tagset->map[HCTX_TYPE_POLL].nr_queues)
> + blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_POLL, q);
If one controller does not support polling and the other does, won't
the block layer fail to map a queue for REQ_POLLED requests?
Maybe clear in the else case here?
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