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Justin TerAvest 4aede84b33 fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task. 
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 08:35:10 +02:00
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blk-cgroup.c cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks 2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
blk-cgroup.h cfq-iosched: Make IO merge related stats per cpu 2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00
blk-core.c block: avoid building too big plug list 2011-07-08 08:19:20 +02:00
blk-exec.c block: Remove 'plug/unplug' comment in blk_execute_rq_nowait 2011-05-05 15:10:05 -06:00
blk-flush.c block: hold queue if flush is running for non-queueable flush drive 2011-05-06 11:36:25 -06:00
blk-integrity.c dm: improve block integrity support 2011-04-05 23:52:43 +02:00
blk-ioc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.1/core 2011-07-01 16:17:13 +02:00
blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard 2011-07-06 21:32:02 +02:00
blk-map.c block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov() 2010-11-29 10:04:50 +01:00
blk-merge.c block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush 2011-03-21 10:14:27 +01:00
blk-settings.c block: Fix discard topology stacking and reporting 2011-05-18 10:37:35 +02:00
blk-softirq.c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT 2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/core 2011-05-20 20:33:15 +02:00
blk-tag.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
blk-throttle.c blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned 2011-06-13 20:19:27 +02:00
blk-timeout.c block: ensure jiffies wrap is handled correctly in blk_rq_timed_out_timer 2010-04-21 17:42:08 +02:00
blk.h Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.40/core 2011-05-20 20:36:16 +02:00
bsg.c [SCSI] bsg: correct fault if queue object removed while dev_t open 2010-12-09 09:41:14 -06:00
cfq-iosched.c fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task. 2011-07-12 08:35:10 +02:00
cfq.h blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used. 2011-03-12 16:54:00 +01:00
compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu 2011-07-01 22:32:26 +02:00
deadline-iosched.c iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/O 2011-06-02 21:19:05 +02:00
elevator.c iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/O 2011-06-02 21:19:05 +02:00
genhd.c block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2) 2011-07-01 16:17:47 +02:00
ioctl.c block: fix refcounting in BLKBSZSET 2011-02-24 08:54:21 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Kconfig.iosched blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
noop-iosched.c block: remove per-queue plugging 2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length 2010-11-10 14:40:42 +01:00