linux/drivers/block
Max Gurtovoy 02746e26c3 virtio-blk: avoid preallocating big SGL for data
No need to pre-allocate a big buffer for the IO SGL anymore. If a device
has lots of deep queues, preallocation for the sg list can consume
substantial amounts of memory. For HW virtio-blk device, nr_hw_queues
can be 64 or 128 and each queue's depth might be 128. This means the
resulting preallocation for the data SGLs is big.

Switch to runtime allocation for SGL for lists longer than 2 entries.
This is the approach used by NVMe drivers so it should be reasonable for
virtio block as well. Runtime SGL allocation has always been the case
for the legacy I/O path so this is nothing new.

The preallocated small SGL depends on SG_CHAIN so if the ARCH doesn't
support SG_CHAIN, use only runtime allocation for the SGL.

Re-organize the setup of the IO request to fit the new sg chain
mechanism.

No performance degradation was seen (fio libaio engine with 16 jobs and
128 iodepth):

IO size      IOPs Rand Read (before/after)         IOPs Rand Write (before/after)
--------     ---------------------------------    ----------------------------------
512B          318K/316K                                    329K/325K

4KB           323K/321K                                    353K/349K

16KB          199K/208K                                    250K/275K

128KB         36K/36.1K                                    39.2K/41.7K

Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210901131434.31158-1-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Feng Li <lifeng1519@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> # kconfig fixups
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2021-11-01 04:29:47 -04:00
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aoe for-5.14/drivers-2021-06-29 2021-06-30 12:21:16 -07:00
drbd block: move the bdi from the request_queue to the gendisk 2021-08-09 11:53:23 -06:00
mtip32xx mtip32xx: use blk_mq_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk 2021-06-30 15:34:04 -06:00
null_blk null_blk: add error handling support for add_disk() 2021-08-23 12:55:46 -06:00
paride SCSI misc on 20210902 2021-09-02 15:09:46 -07:00
rnbd block/rnbd-clt-sysfs: fix a couple uninitialized variable bugs 2021-10-12 10:39:57 -06:00
rsxx for-5.14/drivers-2021-06-29 2021-06-30 12:21:16 -07:00
xen-blkback isystem: trim/fixup stdarg.h and other headers 2021-08-19 09:02:55 +09:00
zram Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
amiflop.c amiflop: use blk_mq_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk 2021-06-11 11:54:43 -06:00
ataflop.c ataflop: use blk_mq_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk 2021-06-11 11:54:43 -06:00
brd.c brd: reduce the brd_devices_mutex scope 2021-10-17 06:51:19 -06:00
cryptoloop.c cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning 2021-08-27 10:44:54 -06:00
floppy.c Revert "floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix" 2021-08-28 11:16:47 +03:00
Kconfig virtio-blk: avoid preallocating big SGL for data 2021-11-01 04:29:47 -04:00
loop.c loop: reduce the loop_ctl_mutex scope 2021-09-03 22:14:40 -06:00
loop.h loop: reduce the loop_ctl_mutex scope 2021-09-03 22:14:40 -06:00
Makefile drivers/block: remove the umem driver 2021-03-24 06:57:40 -06:00
n64cart.c n64cart: fix return value check in n64cart_probe() 2021-09-09 14:24:02 -06:00
nbd.c nbd: use shifts rather than multiplies 2021-09-29 20:31:41 -06:00
pktcdvd.c block: move the bdi from the request_queue to the gendisk 2021-08-09 11:53:23 -06:00
ps3disk.c ps3disk: use memcpy_{from,to}_bvec 2021-08-02 13:37:27 -06:00
ps3vram.c ps3vram: use bvec_virt 2021-08-16 10:50:33 -06:00
rbd_types.h libceph, rbd: replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-06-01 13:22:53 +02:00
rbd.c rbd: use bvec_virt 2021-08-16 10:50:33 -06:00
sunvdc.c Char / Misc driver updates for 5.14-rc1 2021-07-05 13:42:16 -07:00
swim3.c swim3: use blk_mq_alloc_disk 2021-06-11 11:53:02 -06:00
swim_asm.S treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
swim.c swim: use blk_mq_alloc_disk 2021-06-11 11:53:03 -06:00
sx8.c sx8: use the internal state machine to check if del_gendisk needs to be called 2021-08-12 10:29:36 -06:00
virtio_blk.c virtio-blk: avoid preallocating big SGL for data 2021-11-01 04:29:47 -04:00
xen-blkfront.c xen: branch for v5.15-rc1 2021-09-02 13:20:11 -07:00
z2ram.c for-5.14/drivers-2021-06-29 2021-06-30 12:21:16 -07:00