From d285203cf647d7c97db3a1c33794315c9008593f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:06:53 +0100 Subject: scsi: add support for a blk-mq based I/O path. This patch adds support for an alternate I/O path in the scsi midlayer which uses the blk-mq infrastructure instead of the legacy request code. Use of blk-mq is fully transparent to drivers, although for now a host template field is provided to opt out of blk-mq usage in case any unforseen incompatibilities arise. In general replacing the legacy request code with blk-mq is a simple and mostly mechanical transformation. The biggest exception is the new code that deals with the fact the I/O submissions in blk-mq must happen from process context, which slightly complicates the I/O completion handler. The second biggest differences is that blk-mq is build around the concept of preallocated requests that also include driver specific data, which in SCSI context means the scsi_cmnd structure. This completely avoids dynamic memory allocations for the fast path through I/O submission. Due the preallocated requests the MQ code path exclusively uses the host-wide shared tag allocator instead of a per-LUN one. This only affects drivers actually using the block layer provided tag allocator instead of their own. Unlike the old path blk-mq always provides a tag, although drivers don't have to use it. For now the blk-mq path is disable by defauly and must be enabled using the "use_blk_mq" module parameter. Once the remaining work in the block layer to make blk-mq more suitable for slow devices is complete I hope to make it the default and eventually even remove the old code path. Based on the earlier scsi-mq prototype by Nicholas Bellinger. Thanks to Bart Van Assche and Robert Elliot for testing, benchmarking and various sugestions and code contributions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Webb Scales Acked-by: Jens Axboe Tested-by: Bart Van Assche Tested-by: Robert Elliott --- drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h') diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h b/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h index a45d1c2eb414..12b8e1bee7f0 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h @@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ extern void scsi_next_command(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd); extern void scsi_io_completion(struct scsi_cmnd *, unsigned int); extern void scsi_run_host_queues(struct Scsi_Host *shost); extern struct request_queue *scsi_alloc_queue(struct scsi_device *sdev); +extern struct request_queue *scsi_mq_alloc_queue(struct scsi_device *sdev); +extern int scsi_mq_setup_tags(struct Scsi_Host *shost); +extern void scsi_mq_destroy_tags(struct Scsi_Host *shost); extern int scsi_init_queue(void); extern void scsi_exit_queue(void); struct request_queue; -- cgit v1.2.3