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Commit faad87df authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer
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dm: add 'dm_mq_nr_hw_queues' and 'dm_mq_queue_depth' module params



Allow user to change these values via module params or sysfs.

'dm_mq_nr_hw_queues' defaults to 1 (max 32).

'dm_mq_queue_depth' defaults to 2048 (up from 64, which proved far too
small under moderate sized workloads -- the dm-multipath device would
continuously block waiting for tags (requests) to become available).
The maximum is BLK_MQ_MAX_DEPTH (currently 10240).

Keep in mind the total number of pre-allocated requests per
request-based dm-mq device is 'dm_mq_nr_hw_queues' * 'dm_mq_queue_depth'
(currently 2048).

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
parent c91852ff
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