dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM

Commit e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on
blk-mq devices") served as the first step toward fully utilizing blk-mq
in request-based DM -- it enabled stacking an old-style (request_fn)
request_queue ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  That first step
didn't improve performance of DM multipath ontop of fast blk-mq devices
(e.g. NVMe) because the top-level old-style request_queue was severely
limited by the queue_lock.

The second step offered here enables stacking a blk-mq request_queue
ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  This unlocks significant
performance gains on fast blk-mq devices, Keith Busch tested on his NVMe
testbed and offered this really positive news:

 "Just providing a performance update. All my fio tests are getting
  roughly equal performance whether accessed through the raw block
  device or the multipath device mapper (~470k IOPS). I could only push
  ~20% of the raw iops through dm before this conversion, so this latest
  tree is looking really solid from a performance standpoint."

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h
index 889f3a5b7b18..eac8c3641f39 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ enum {
 #define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY     _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, struct dm_ioctl)
 
 #define DM_VERSION_MAJOR        4
-#define DM_VERSION_MINOR        30
+#define DM_VERSION_MINOR        31
 #define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL   0
-#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA        "-ioctl (2014-12-22)"
+#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA        "-ioctl (2015-3-12)"
 
 /* Status bits */
 #define DM_READONLY_FLAG        (1 << 0) /* In/Out */