scsi: add support for a blk-mq based I/O path.

This patch adds support for an alternate I/O path in the scsi midlayer
which uses the blk-mq infrastructure instead of the legacy request code.

Use of blk-mq is fully transparent to drivers, although for now a host
template field is provided to opt out of blk-mq usage in case any unforseen
incompatibilities arise.

In general replacing the legacy request code with blk-mq is a simple and
mostly mechanical transformation.  The biggest exception is the new code
that deals with the fact the I/O submissions in blk-mq must happen from
process context, which slightly complicates the I/O completion handler.
The second biggest differences is that blk-mq is build around the concept
of preallocated requests that also include driver specific data, which
in SCSI context means the scsi_cmnd structure.  This completely avoids
dynamic memory allocations for the fast path through I/O submission.

Due the preallocated requests the MQ code path exclusively uses the
host-wide shared tag allocator instead of a per-LUN one.  This only
affects drivers actually using the block layer provided tag allocator
instead of their own.  Unlike the old path blk-mq always provides a tag,
although drivers don't have to use it.

For now the blk-mq path is disable by defauly and must be enabled using
the "use_blk_mq" module parameter.  Once the remaining work in the block
layer to make blk-mq more suitable for slow devices is complete I hope
to make it the default and eventually even remove the old code path.

Based on the earlier scsi-mq prototype by Nicholas Bellinger.

Thanks to Bart Van Assche and Robert Elliot for testing, benchmarking and
various sugestions and code contributions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
index 5e8ebc1ac12b..ba2034779961 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/blk-mq.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi.h>
 
 struct request_queue;
@@ -510,6 +511,9 @@ struct scsi_host_template {
 	 */
 	unsigned int cmd_size;
 	struct scsi_host_cmd_pool *cmd_pool;
+
+	/* temporary flag to disable blk-mq I/O path */
+	bool disable_blk_mq;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -580,7 +584,10 @@ struct Scsi_Host {
 	 * Area to keep a shared tag map (if needed, will be
 	 * NULL if not).
 	 */
-	struct blk_queue_tag	*bqt;
+	union {
+		struct blk_queue_tag	*bqt;
+		struct blk_mq_tag_set	tag_set;
+	};
 
 	atomic_t host_busy;		   /* commands actually active on low-level */
 	atomic_t host_blocked;
@@ -672,6 +679,8 @@ struct Scsi_Host {
 	/* The controller does not support WRITE SAME */
 	unsigned no_write_same:1;
 
+	unsigned use_blk_mq:1;
+
 	/*
 	 * Optional work queue to be utilized by the transport
 	 */
@@ -772,6 +781,13 @@ static inline int scsi_host_in_recovery(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
 		shost->tmf_in_progress;
 }
 
+extern bool scsi_use_blk_mq;
+
+static inline bool shost_use_blk_mq(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
+{
+	return shost->use_blk_mq;
+}
+
 extern int scsi_queue_work(struct Scsi_Host *, struct work_struct *);
 extern void scsi_flush_work(struct Scsi_Host *);