scsi: target: Allow userspace to request direct submissions

This allows userspace to request the fabric drivers do direct submissions
if they support it. With the new device file, submit_type, users can
write 0 - 2 to control how commands are submitted to the backend:

 0 - TARGET_FABRIC_DEFAULT_SUBMIT - LIO will use the fabric's default
     submission type. This is the default for compat.

 1 - TARGET_DIRECT_SUBMIT - LIO will submit the cmd to the backend from the
     calling context if the fabric the cmd was received on supports it,
     else it will use the fabric's default type.

 2 - TARGET_QUEUE_SUBMIT - LIO will queue the cmd to the LIO submission
     workqueue which will pass it to the backend.

When using an NVMe drive and vhost-scsi with direct submission we see
around a 20% improvement in 4K I/Os:

fio jobs        1       2       4       8       10
--------------------------------------------------
defer           94K     190K    394K    770K    890K
direct          128K    252K    488K    950K    -

And when using the queueing mode, we now no longer see issues like where
the iSCSI tx thread is blocked in the block layer waiting on a tag so it
can't respond to a nop or perform I/Os for other LUs.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928020907.5730-6-michael.christie@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
This commit is contained in:
Mike Christie
2023-09-27 21:09:05 -05:00
committed by Martin K. Petersen
parent 428926796e
commit e2f4ea4013
6 changed files with 57 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ struct se_dev_attrib {
u32 unmap_granularity;
u32 unmap_granularity_alignment;
u32 max_write_same_len;
u8 submit_type;
struct se_device *da_dev;
struct config_group da_group;
};