Ming Lei
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For SCSI devices, there is often a per-request-queue depth, which needs to be respected before queuing one request. Currently blk-mq always dequeues the request first, then calls .queue_rq() to dispatch the request to lld. One obvious issue with this approach is that I/O merging may not be successful, because when the per-request-queue depth can't be respected, .queue_rq() has to return BLK_STS_RESOURCE, and then this request has to stay in hctx->dispatch list. This means it never gets a chance to be merged with other IO. This patch introduces .get_budget and .put_budget callback in blk_mq_ops, then we can try to get reserved budget first before dequeuing request. If the budget for queueing I/O can't be satisfied, we don't need to dequeue request at all. Hence the request can be left in the IO scheduler queue, for more merging opportunities. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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