[PATCH 10/16] blk-mq-sched: unify elevators checking for async requests

From: Yu Kuai
Date: Wed Aug 13 2025 - 23:46:43 EST


From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>

bfq and mq-deadline consider sync writes as async requests and only
resver tags for sync reads by async_depth, however, kyber doesn't
consider sync writes as async requests.

Consider the case there are lots of dirty pages, and user do fsync,
in this case sched_tags can be exhausted by sync writes and sync reads
can stuck waiting for tag. Hence let kyber follow what mq-deadline and
bfq did, and unify async requests checking for all elevators.

Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/bfq-iosched.c | 2 +-
block/blk-mq-sched.h | 5 +++++
block/kyber-iosched.c | 2 +-
block/mq-deadline.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index c0c398998aa1..de0dee255ccf 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ static void bfq_limit_depth(blk_opf_t opf, struct blk_mq_alloc_data *data)
unsigned int limit, act_idx;

/* Sync reads have full depth available */
- if (op_is_sync(opf) && !op_is_write(opf))
+ if (blk_mq_sched_sync_request(opf))
limit = data->q->nr_requests;
else
limit = bfqd->async_depths[!!bfqd->wr_busy_queues][op_is_sync(opf)];
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.h b/block/blk-mq-sched.h
index 8e21a6b1415d..ae747f9053c7 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.h
@@ -103,4 +103,9 @@ static inline void blk_mq_set_min_shallow_depth(struct request_queue *q,
depth);
}

+static inline bool blk_mq_sched_sync_request(blk_opf_t opf)
+{
+ return op_is_sync(opf) && !op_is_write(opf);
+}
+
#endif
diff --git a/block/kyber-iosched.c b/block/kyber-iosched.c
index 49ae52aa20d9..b3df807044c3 100644
--- a/block/kyber-iosched.c
+++ b/block/kyber-iosched.c
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ static void kyber_limit_depth(blk_opf_t opf, struct blk_mq_alloc_data *data)
* We use the scheduler tags as per-hardware queue queueing tokens.
* Async requests can be limited at this stage.
*/
- if (!op_is_sync(opf)) {
+ if (!blk_mq_sched_sync_request(opf)) {
struct kyber_queue_data *kqd = data->q->elevator->elevator_data;

data->shallow_depth = kqd->async_depth;
diff --git a/block/mq-deadline.c b/block/mq-deadline.c
index 578bc79c5654..1825173d82a6 100644
--- a/block/mq-deadline.c
+++ b/block/mq-deadline.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ static void dd_limit_depth(blk_opf_t opf, struct blk_mq_alloc_data *data)
struct deadline_data *dd = data->q->elevator->elevator_data;

/* Do not throttle synchronous reads. */
- if (op_is_sync(opf) && !op_is_write(opf))
+ if (blk_mq_sched_sync_request(opf))
return;

/*
--
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