Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] block: drop shared-tag fairness throttling

[Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 09:16:11PM +0530, Sumit Saxena wrote:
> The motivation for this change stems from performance issue we
> encountered due to false sharing of the 'nr_active_requests_shared_tags'
> counter
> on certain CPU architectures. I initially submitted a patch to move that
> counter to
> its own cache line to avoid conflicts with 'nr_requests' and other hot
> fields
> (see:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-scsi/patch/20260402074637.92417-3-sumit.saxena@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> ).
> 
> During the review, Bart shared his work, which eliminates the
> counter entirely by removing the fairness throttling. My testing confirmed
> that
> this approach resolved the performance issues and improved IOPS.
> This patch is part of a larger set, and I have reported the cumulative
> performance
> improvements in the cover letter.

So the problem is just the atomic operation accounting overhead? I
previously thought the device just really needed to consume all the tags
to hit performance.