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_scan.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c') diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c index 4a6e4ba5a400..b91cfaf033aa 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c @@ -273,7 +273,10 @@ static struct scsi_device *scsi_alloc_sdev(struct scsi_target *starget, */ sdev->borken = 1; - sdev->request_queue = scsi_alloc_queue(sdev); + if (shost_use_blk_mq(shost)) + sdev->request_queue = scsi_mq_alloc_queue(sdev); + else + sdev->request_queue = scsi_alloc_queue(sdev); if (!sdev->request_queue) { /* release fn is set up in scsi_sysfs_device_initialise, so * have to free and put manually here */ -- cgit