| Message ID | cover.1568864712.git.baolin.wang@linaro.org |
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| Headers | show |
| Series | Add MMC software queue support | expand |
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 20:08, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> wrote: > > On 26/09/19 12:43 PM, Baolin Wang wrote: > > Hi Adrian and Ulf, > > > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 13:59, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Now the MMC read/write stack will always wait for previous request is > >> completed by mmc_blk_rw_wait(), before sending a new request to hardware, > >> or queue a work to complete request, that will bring context switching > >> overhead, especially for high I/O per second rates, to affect the IO > >> performance. > >> > >> Thus this patch set will introduce the MMC software command queue support > >> based on command queue engine's interfaces, and set the queue depth as 2, > >> that means we do not need wait for previous request is completed and can > >> queue 2 requests in flight. It is enough to let the irq handler always > >> trigger the next request without a context switch and then ask the blk_mq > >> layer for the next one to get queued, as well as avoiding a long latency. > >> > >> Moreover we can expand the MMC software queue interface to support > >> MMC packed request or packed command instead of adding new interfaces, > >> according to previosus discussion. > >> > >> Below are some comparison data with fio tool. The fio command I used > >> is like below with changing the '--rw' parameter and enabling the direct > >> IO flag to measure the actual hardware transfer speed in 4K block size. > >> > >> ./fio --filename=/dev/mmcblk0p30 --direct=1 --iodepth=20 --rw=read --bs=4K --size=512M --group_reporting --numjobs=20 --name=test_read > >> > >> My eMMC card working at HS400 Enhanced strobe mode: > >> [ 2.229856] mmc0: new HS400 Enhanced strobe MMC card at address 0001 > >> [ 2.237566] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 HBG4a2 29.1 GiB > >> [ 2.242621] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 HBG4a2 partition 1 4.00 MiB > >> [ 2.249110] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 HBG4a2 partition 2 4.00 MiB > >> [ 2.255307] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 HBG4a2 partition 3 4.00 MiB, chardev (248:0) > >> > >> 1. Without MMC software queue > >> I tested 3 times for each case and output a average speed. > >> > >> 1) Sequential read: > >> Speed: 28.9MiB/s, 26.4MiB/s, 30.9MiB/s > >> Average speed: 28.7MiB/s > >> > >> 2) Random read: > >> Speed: 18.2MiB/s, 8.9MiB/s, 15.8MiB/s > >> Average speed: 14.3MiB/s > >> > >> 3) Sequential write: > >> Speed: 21.1MiB/s, 27.9MiB/s, 25MiB/s > >> Average speed: 24.7MiB/s > >> > >> 4) Random write: > >> Speed: 21.5MiB/s, 18.1MiB/s, 18.1MiB/s > >> Average speed: 19.2MiB/s > >> > >> 2. With MMC software queue > >> I tested 3 times for each case and output a average speed. > >> > >> 1) Sequential read: > >> Speed: 44.1MiB/s, 42.3MiB/s, 44.4MiB/s > >> Average speed: 43.6MiB/s > >> > >> 2) Random read: > >> Speed: 30.6MiB/s, 30.9MiB/s, 30.5MiB/s > >> Average speed: 30.6MiB/s > >> > >> 3) Sequential write: > >> Speed: 44.1MiB/s, 45.9MiB/s, 44.2MiB/s > >> Average speed: 44.7MiB/s > >> > >> 4) Random write: > >> Speed: 45.1MiB/s, 43.3MiB/s, 42.4MiB/s > >> Average speed: 43.6MiB/s > >> > >> Form above data, we can see the MMC software queue can help to improve the > >> performance obviously. > >> > >> Any comments are welcome. Thanks a lot. > >> > >> Changes from v2: > >> - Remove reference to 'struct cqhci_host' and 'struct cqhci_slot', > >> instead adding 'struct sqhci_host', which is only used by software queue. > >> > >> Changes from v1: > >> - Add request_done ops for sdhci_ops. > >> - Replace virtual command queue with software queue for functions and > >> variables. > >> - Rename the software queue file and add sqhci.h header file. > > > > Do you have any comments for this patch set except the random config > > building issue that will be fixed in the next version? Thanks. > > Pedantically, swhci is not a host controller interface, so the name still > seems inappropriate. Otherwise I haven't had time to look at it, sorry. OK. I will talk with Ulf to think about a good name. Thanks. -- Baolin Wang Best Regards