blk-mq: complete req in softirq context in case of single queue
Lot of controllers may have only one irq vector for completing IO request. And usually affinity of the only irq vector is all possible CPUs, however, on most of ARCH, there may be only one specific CPU for handling this interrupt. So if all IOs are completed in hardirq context, it is inevitable to degrade IO performance because of increased irq latency. This patch tries to address this issue by allowing to complete request in softirq context, like the legacy IO path. IOPS is observed as ~13%+ in the following randread test on raid0 over virtio-scsi. mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=0 --chunk=1024 --raid-devices=8 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh /dev/sdi fio --time_based --name=benchmark --runtime=30 --filename=/dev/md0 --nrfiles=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 --verify_fatal=0 --numjobs=32 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com> Cc: Zach Marano <zmarano@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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