block: do not reverse request order when flushing plug list
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:30:02 +0000 (10:30 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:33:46 +0000 (13:33 +0100)
commit221f655b574d7012086f4696a69b013becdd53b2
tree49a14883e420ac7e8871710ddb47b384d4bf0685
parent68fbc35583abe804c7e94bcdd5eeba07046fa376
block: do not reverse request order when flushing plug list

[ Upstream commit 34e0a279a993debaff03158fc2fbf6a00c093643 ]

Commit 26fed4ac4eab ("block: flush plug based on hardware and software
queue order") changed flushing of plug list to submit requests one
device at a time. However while doing that it also started using
list_add_tail() instead of list_add() used previously thus effectively
submitting requests in reverse order. Also when forming a rq_list with
remaining requests (in case two or more devices are used), we
effectively reverse the ordering of the plug list for each device we
process. Submitting requests in reverse order has negative impact on
performance for rotational disks (when BFQ is not in use). We observe
10-25% regression in random 4k write throughput, as well as ~20%
regression in MariaDB OLTP benchmark on rotational storage on btrfs
filesystem.

Fix the problem by preserving ordering of the plug list when inserting
requests into the queuelist as well as by appending to requeue_list
instead of prepending to it.

Fixes: 26fed4ac4eab ("block: flush plug based on hardware and software queue order")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313093002.11756-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
block/blk-mq.c
include/linux/blk-mq.h