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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2019-10-28 19:23:26 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-11-04 18:56:42 +0100
commit9dea0c81ee4a7b5d8e5bc0d4cfa2ee4f0e7b13f0 (patch)
tree55bdba5501fc243ac550b5eea27368bd9f759b95
parentnvmet: clean up command parsing a bit (diff)
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nvmet: add plugging for read/write when ns is bdev
With reference to the following issue reported on the mailing list :- http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2019-October/027604.html this patch adds plugging for the bdev-ns under nvmet_bdev_execute_rw(). We can see the following performance improvement in random write workload I/Os with the setup described in the link when device_path configured as /dev/md0. Without this patch :-   write: IOPS=40.8k, BW=159MiB/s (167MB/s)(4777MiB/30002msec)   write: IOPS=41.2k, BW=161MiB/s (169MB/s)(4831MiB/30011msec)     slat (usec): min=8,  max=10823, avg=15.64,  stdev=16.85     slat (usec): min=8,  max=401,   avg=15.40,  stdev= 9.56     clat (usec): min=54, max=2492,  avg=759.07, stdev=172.62     clat (usec): min=56, max=1997,  avg=768.06, stdev=178.72 With this patch :-   write: IOPS=123k, BW=480MiB/s (504MB/s)(14.1GiB/30011msec)   write: IOPS=123k, BW=481MiB/s (504MB/s)(14.1GiB/30002msec)     slat (usec): min=8,  max=9941,  avg=13.31,  stdev= 8.04     slat (usec): min=8,  max=289,   avg=13.31,  stdev= 3.37     clat (usec): min=43, max=17635, avg=245.46, stdev=171.23     clat (usec): min=44, max=17751, avg=245.25, stdev=183.14 Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c
index 04a9cd2a2604..07e4f8c579d3 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void nvmet_bdev_execute_rw(struct nvmet_req *req)
int sg_cnt = req->sg_cnt;
struct bio *bio;
struct scatterlist *sg;
+ struct blk_plug plug;
sector_t sector;
int op, op_flags = 0, i;
@@ -185,6 +186,7 @@ static void nvmet_bdev_execute_rw(struct nvmet_req *req)
bio->bi_end_io = nvmet_bio_done;
bio_set_op_attrs(bio, op, op_flags);
+ blk_start_plug(&plug);
for_each_sg(req->sg, sg, req->sg_cnt, i) {
while (bio_add_page(bio, sg_page(sg), sg->length, sg->offset)
!= sg->length) {
@@ -204,6 +206,7 @@ static void nvmet_bdev_execute_rw(struct nvmet_req *req)
}
submit_bio(bio);
+ blk_finish_plug(&plug);
}
static void nvmet_bdev_execute_flush(struct nvmet_req *req)