blk-mq: issue directly if hw queue isn't busy in case of 'none'

In case of 'none' io scheduler, when hw queue isn't busy, it isn't
necessary to enqueue request to sw queue and dequeue it from
sw queue because request may be submitted to hw queue asap without
extra cost, meantime there shouldn't be much request in sw queue,
and we don't need to worry about effect on IO merge.

There are still some single hw queue SCSI HBAs(HPSA, megaraid_sas, ...)
which may connect high performance devices, so 'none' is often required
for obtaining good performance.

This patch improves IOPS and decreases CPU unilization on megaraid_sas,
per Kashyap's test.

Cc: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reported-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index fdc129e64cc4..cf9c66c6d35a 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -405,8 +405,19 @@ void blk_mq_sched_insert_requests(struct request_queue *q,
 
 	if (e && e->type->ops.mq.insert_requests)
 		e->type->ops.mq.insert_requests(hctx, list, false);
-	else
+	else {
+		/*
+		 * try to issue requests directly if the hw queue isn't
+		 * busy in case of 'none' scheduler, and this way may save
+		 * us one extra enqueue & dequeue to sw queue.
+		 */
+		if (!hctx->dispatch_busy && !e && !run_queue_async) {
+			blk_mq_try_issue_list_directly(hctx, list);
+			if (list_empty(list))
+				return;
+		}
 		blk_mq_insert_requests(hctx, ctx, list);
+	}
 
 	blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, run_queue_async);
 }