scsi: remove performance regression due to async queue run

Commit c21e6beb removed our queue request_fn re-enter
protection, and defaulted to always running the queues from
kblockd to be safe. This was a known potential slow down,
but should be safe.

Unfortunately this is causing big performance regressions for
some, so we need to improve this logic. Looking into the details
of the re-enter, the real issue is on requeue of requests.

Requeue of requests upon seeing a BUSY condition from the device
ends up re-running the queue, causing traces like this:

scsi_request_fn()
        scsi_dispatch_cmd()
                scsi_queue_insert()
                        __scsi_queue_insert()
                                scsi_run_queue()
					scsi_request_fn()
						...

potentially causing the issue we want to avoid. So special
case the requeue re-run of the queue, but improve it to offload
the entire run of local queue and starved queue from a single
workqueue callback. This is a lot better than potentially
kicking off a workqueue run for each device seen.

This also fixes the issue of the local device going into recursion,
since the above mentioned commit never moved that queue run out
of line.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index e9901b8..01e4e51 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ struct kmem_cache *scsi_sdb_cache;
  */
 #define SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY	3
 
-static void scsi_run_queue(struct request_queue *q);
-
 /*
  * Function:	scsi_unprep_request()
  *
@@ -161,7 +159,7 @@ static int __scsi_queue_insert(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, int reason, int unbusy)
 	blk_requeue_request(q, cmd->request);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
 
-	scsi_run_queue(q);
+	kblockd_schedule_work(q, &device->requeue_work);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -433,7 +431,11 @@ static void scsi_run_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		blk_run_queue_async(sdev->request_queue);
+		spin_unlock(shost->host_lock);
+		spin_lock(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock);
+		__blk_run_queue(sdev->request_queue);
+		spin_unlock(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock);
+		spin_lock(shost->host_lock);
 	}
 	/* put any unprocessed entries back */
 	list_splice(&starved_list, &shost->starved_list);
@@ -442,6 +444,16 @@ static void scsi_run_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 	blk_run_queue(q);
 }
 
+void scsi_requeue_run_queue(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct scsi_device *sdev;
+	struct request_queue *q;
+
+	sdev = container_of(work, struct scsi_device, requeue_work);
+	q = sdev->request_queue;
+	scsi_run_queue(q);
+}
+
 /*
  * Function:	scsi_requeue_command()
  *
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
index 087821f..58584dc 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ static struct scsi_device *scsi_alloc_sdev(struct scsi_target *starget,
 	int display_failure_msg = 1, ret;
 	struct Scsi_Host *shost = dev_to_shost(starget->dev.parent);
 	extern void scsi_evt_thread(struct work_struct *work);
+	extern void scsi_requeue_run_queue(struct work_struct *work);
 
 	sdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*sdev) + shost->transportt->device_size,
 		       GFP_ATOMIC);
@@ -264,6 +265,7 @@ static struct scsi_device *scsi_alloc_sdev(struct scsi_target *starget,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sdev->event_list);
 	spin_lock_init(&sdev->list_lock);
 	INIT_WORK(&sdev->event_work, scsi_evt_thread);
+	INIT_WORK(&sdev->requeue_work, scsi_requeue_run_queue);
 
 	sdev->sdev_gendev.parent = get_device(&starget->dev);
 	sdev->sdev_target = starget;