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    blk-mq: issue directly if hw queue isn't busy in case of 'none' · 6ce3dd6e
    Ming Lei authored
    
    
    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: default avatarKashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarKashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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