blk-mq-sched: dispatch from scheduler IFF progress is made in ->dispatch
When the hw queue is busy, we shouldn't take requests from the scheduler queue any more, otherwise it is difficult to do IO merge. This patch fixes the awful IO performance on some SCSI devices(lpfc, qla2xxx, ...) when mq-deadline/kyber is used by not taking requests if hw queue is busy. Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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