blk-mq: only attempt to merge bio if there is rq in sw queue

[ Upstream commit b04f50a ]

Only attempt to merge bio iff the ctx->rq_list isn't empty, because:

1) for high-performance SSD, most of times dispatch may succeed, then
there may be nothing left in ctx->rq_list, so don't try to merge over
sw queue if it is empty, then we can save one acquiring of ctx->lock

2) we can't expect good merge performance on per-cpu sw queue, and missing
one merge on sw queue won't be a big deal since tasks can be scheduled from
one CPU to another.

Cc: Laurence Oberman <[email protected]>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kashyap Desai <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Kashyap Desai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Author: Ming Lei

block/blk-mq-sched.c

@@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ bool __blk_mq_sched_bio_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 		return e->type->ops.mq.bio_merge(hctx, bio);
 	}
 
-	if (hctx->flags & BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE) {
+	if ((hctx->flags & BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE) &&
+			!list_empty_careful(&ctx->rq_list)) {
 		/* default per sw-queue merge */
 		spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
 		ret = blk_mq_attempt_merge(q, ctx, bio);