mmc: fix async request mechanism for sequential read scenarios

When current request is running on the bus and if next request fetched
by mmcqd is NULL, mmc context (mmcqd thread) gets blocked until the
current request completes. This means that if new request comes in while
the mmcqd thread is blocked, this new request can not be prepared in
parallel to current ongoing request. This may result in delaying the new
request execution and increase it's latency.

This change allows to wake up the MMC thread on new request arrival.
Now once the MMC thread is woken up, a new request can be fetched and
prepared in parallel to the current running request which means this new
request can be started immediately after the current running request
completes.

With this change read throughput is improved by 16%.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Dorfman <kdorfman@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/host.h b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
index c89a1bb87fa..523d570f58a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmc/host.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
@@ -170,6 +170,22 @@ struct mmc_slot {
 	void *handler_priv;
 };
 
+/**
+ * mmc_context_info - synchronization details for mmc context
+ * @is_done_rcv		wake up reason was done request
+ * @is_new_req		wake up reason was new request
+ * @is_waiting_last_req	mmc context waiting for single running request
+ * @wait		wait queue
+ * @lock		lock to protect data fields
+ */
+struct mmc_context_info {
+	bool			is_done_rcv;
+	bool			is_new_req;
+	bool			is_waiting_last_req;
+	wait_queue_head_t	wait;
+	spinlock_t		lock;
+};
+
 struct regulator;
 
 struct mmc_supply {
@@ -331,6 +347,7 @@ struct mmc_host {
 	struct dentry		*debugfs_root;
 
 	struct mmc_async_req	*areq;		/* active async req */
+	struct mmc_context_info	context_info;	/* async synchronization info */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
 	struct fault_attr	fail_mmc_request;