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Jens Axboe
956bcb7c1a block: add helpers for the trivial queue flag sysfs show/store entries
The code for nonrot, random, and io stats are completely identical.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:13:50 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e2e1a148bc block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions
There are two reasons for doing this:

- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
  are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
  should contribute to the random pool in the first place.

- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to
switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there
should be no functional changes from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:13:00 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2f4084209a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
  loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
  block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
  backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
  Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
  drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
  cciss: unlock on error path
  cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
  cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
  i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
  cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
  block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
  Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
  block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
  block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
  block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
  vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
  paride: fix off-by-one test
  drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
  ...
2010-04-09 11:50:29 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Jens Axboe
b4b7a4ef09 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	block/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-19 08:05:10 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
c77a5710b7 block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
These two values are useful when debugging issues surrounding maximum
I/O size.  Put them in sysfs with the rest of the queue limits.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15 12:48:00 +01:00
Emese Revfy
52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Alan D. Brunelle
488991e28e block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-29 09:04:08 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
98262f2762 block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 09:24:48 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
86b3728141 block: Expose discard granularity
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-10 11:50:21 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
48c0d4d4c0 Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9.
Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL.

Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were
note properly destroyed during  device removal:

unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80):
  comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff  .........e......
    90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff  .f........S.....
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff813f9cc6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60
    [<ffffffff8111d693>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0
    [<ffffffff81195891>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120
    [<ffffffff81194b0c>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0
    [<ffffffff81197c81>] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0
    [<ffffffff81197d93>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20
    [<ffffffff810d8004>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20
    [<ffffffff8123f45c>] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0
    [<ffffffff812447e4>] add_disk+0x94/0x160
    [<ffffffffa00d8b08>] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de951>] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de823>] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de8f2>] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffff81177bfd>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0
    [<ffffffff81036ed8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b8a9ae779f block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later
we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling
reasons.

This fixes

5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309

and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:53 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
c295fc0578 block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512
The patch "block: Use accessor functions for queue limits"
(ae03bf639a) changed queue_max_sectors_store()
to use blk_queue_max_sectors() instead of directly assigning the value.

But blk_queue_max_sectors() differs a bit
1. It sets both max_sectors_kb, and max_hw_sectors_kb
2. Never allows one to change max_sectors_kb above BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS. If one
specifies a value greater then max_hw_sectors is set to that value but
max_sectors is set to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS

I am not sure whether blk_queue_max_sectors() should be changed, as it seems
to be that way for a long time. And there may be callers dependent on that
behaviour.

This patch simply reverts to the older way of directly assigning the value to
max_sectors as it was before.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-01 22:40:15 +02:00
Xiaotian Feng
9cb308ce8d block: sysfs fix mismatched queue_var_{store,show} in 64bit kernel
In blk-sysfs.c, queue_var_store uses unsigned long to store data,
but queue_var_show uses unsigned int to show data.  This causes,

	# echo 70000000000 > /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb
	# cat /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb => get wrong value

Fix it by using unsigned long.

While at it, convert queue_rq_affinity_show() such that it uses bool
variable instead of explicit != 0 testing.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-07-17 16:54:15 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
c72758f337 block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.

  logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.

  physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write
  without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.

  The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by
  the device.  In many cases this is the same as the physical block
  size.  However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking
  (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size).

  The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by
  the device.  This is usually the stripe width for arrays.

  The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start
  of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment.
  Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets
  so filesystems start on proper boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
cd43e26f07 block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs
Currently stacking devices do not have a queue directory in sysfs.
However, many of the I/O characteristics like sector size, maximum
request size, etc. are queue properties.

This patch enables the queue directory for MD/DM devices.  The elevator
code has been modified to deal with queues that do not have an I/O
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
ae03bf639a block: Use accessor functions for queue limits
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Jerome Marchand
42dad7647a block: simplify I/O stat accounting
This simplifies I/O stat accounting switching code and separates it
completely from I/O scheduler switch code.

Requests are accounted according to the state of their request queue
at the time of the request allocation. There is no need anymore to
flush the request queue when switching I/O accounting state.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-24 08:54:21 +02:00
Li Zefan
1d54ad6da9 blktrace: add trace/ to /sys/block/sda
Impact: allow ftrace-plugin blktrace to trace device-mapper devices

To trace a single partition:
  # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/enable

To trace the whole sda instead:
  # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/enable

Thus we also fix an issue reported by Ted, that ftrace-plugin blktrace
can't be used to trace device-mapper devices.

Now:

  # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable
  echo: write error: No such device or address
  # mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-0 /mnt
  # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable
  # echo blk > /debug/tracing/current_tracer

Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E42665.6020506@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16 10:10:59 +02:00
Jens Axboe
f600abe2de block: fix bad spelling of quiesce
Credit goes to Andrew Morton for spotting this one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:09 +02:00
Jerome Marchand
26308eab69 block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code
This forces in_flight to be zero when turning off or on the I/O stat
accounting and stops updating I/O stats in attempt_merge() when
accounting is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1faa16d228 block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead
of doing the split on writes vs reads.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
Jens Axboe
bc58ba9468 block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting
This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases
where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:38 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
1308835fff block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs
For some devices (i.e. CFA ATA) we can't reliably detect whether
the device is of rotational or non-rotational type so we need to
leave the final decision about this setting to the user-space.

As a bonus do a minor CodingStyle fixup in queue_nomerges_store().

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Wu Fengguang
7c239517d9 block: don't take lock on changing ra_pages
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Jens Axboe
c7c22e4d5c block: add support for IO CPU affinity
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of
either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export
a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions
of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper
(bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask
for completion on that specific CPU.

In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much
as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired.

This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only
work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp
helper infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00
Tejun Heo
ed9e198234 block: implement and use {disk|part}_to_dev()
Implement {disk|part}_to_dev() and use them to access generic device
instead of directly dereferencing {disk|part}->dev.  To make sure no
user is left behind, rename generic devices fields to __dev.

This is in preparation of unifying partition 0 handling with other
partitions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Jens Axboe
bf0f97025c block: sysfs store function needs to grab queue_lock and use queue_flag_*()
Concurrency isn't a big deal here since we have requests in flight
at this point, but do the locked variant to set a better example.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:09:39 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle
ac9fafa124 block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
fb19974630 block: fix blk_register_queue() return value
blk_register_queue() returns -ENXIO when queue->request_fn is NULL.  But there
are some block drivers that call blk_register_queue() via add_disk() with
queue->request_fn == NULL.  (For example, brd, loop)

Although no one checks return value of blk_register_queue(), this patch makes
it return 0 instead of -ENXIO when queue->request_fn is NULL,

Also this patch adds warning when blk_register_queue() and
blk_unregister_queue() are called with queue == NULL rather than ignore
invalid usage silently.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21 09:51:06 +02:00
Jens Axboe
6728cb0e63 block: make core bits checkpatch compliant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-01 09:26:33 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
e68b903c6b Expose hardware sector size
Expose hardware sector size in sysfs queue directory.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:17 +01:00
Jens Axboe
8324aa91d1 block: split tag and sysfs handling from blk-core.c
Seperates the tag and sysfs handling from ll_rw_blk.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:07 +01:00