blk-mq: implement new and more efficient tagging scheme
blk-mq currently uses percpu_ida for tag allocation. But that only
works well if the ratio between tag space and number of CPUs is
sufficiently high. For most devices and systems, that is not the
case. The end result if that we either only utilize the tag space
partially, or we end up attempting to fully exhaust it and run
into lots of lock contention with stealing between CPUs. This is
not optimal.
This new tagging scheme is a hybrid bitmap allocator. It uses
two tricks to both be SMP friendly and allow full exhaustion
of the space:
1) We cache the last allocated (or freed) tag on a per blk-mq
software context basis. This allows us to limit the space
we have to search. The key element here is not caching it
in the shared tag structure, otherwise we end up dirtying
more shared cache lines on each allocate/free operation.
2) The tag space is split into cache line sized groups, and
each context will start off randomly in that space. Even up
to full utilization of the space, this divides the tag users
efficiently into cache line groups, avoiding dirtying the same
one both between allocators and between allocator and freeer.
This scheme shows drastically better behaviour, both on small
tag spaces but on large ones as well. It has been tested extensively
to show better performance for all the cases blk-mq cares about.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.h b/block/blk-mq.h
index 1ae364c..97cfab9 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq.h
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
unsigned int cpu;
unsigned int index_hw;
+ unsigned int last_tag ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+
/* incremented at dispatch time */
unsigned long rq_dispatched[2];
unsigned long rq_merged;
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@
struct request_queue *queue;
struct kobject kobj;
-};
+} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
void __blk_mq_complete_request(struct request *rq);
void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async);