blk-mq: introduce .get_budget and .put_budget in blk_mq_ops

For SCSI devices, there is often a per-request-queue depth, which needs
to be respected before queuing one request.

Currently blk-mq always dequeues the request first, then calls
.queue_rq() to dispatch the request to lld. One obvious issue with this
approach is that I/O merging may not be successful, because when the
per-request-queue depth can't be respected, .queue_rq() has to return
BLK_STS_RESOURCE, and then this request has to stay in hctx->dispatch
list. This means it never gets a chance to be merged with other IO.

This patch introduces .get_budget and .put_budget callback in blk_mq_ops,
then we can try to get reserved budget first before dequeuing request.
If the budget for queueing I/O can't be satisfied, we don't need to
dequeue request at all. Hence the request can be left in the IO
scheduler queue, for more merging opportunities.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.h b/block/blk-mq-sched.h
index 9267d0b7c197..2434061cc5b7 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_insert_requests(struct request_queue *q,
 				  struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx,
 				  struct list_head *list, bool run_queue_async);
 
-void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx);
+bool blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx);
 
 int blk_mq_init_sched(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e);
 void blk_mq_exit_sched(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_queue *e);