kernel/linux.git/include/linux/blkdev.h, branch v2.6.30

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6

2009-05-02T23:48:32+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: ide-cd: fix REQ_QUIET tests in cdrom_decode_status Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/blkdev.h

ide-cd: fix REQ_QUIET tests in cdrom_decode_status

2009-04-30T16:24:34+00:00

Original patch (dfa4411cc3a690011cab90e9a536938795366cf9) was buggy. This is a more proper fix which introduces blk_rq_quiet() macro alleviating the need for dumb, too short caching variables. Thanks to Helge Deller and Bart for debugging this. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Sergei Shtylyov Reported-and-tested-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

block: simplify I/O stat accounting

2009-04-24T06:54:21+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove unused REQ_UNPLUG

2009-04-07T06:59:11+00:00

The request inherits the unplug flag from the bio, but it isn't actually used. The bio flag stops at __make_request(), which tells it to unplug after submission. Passing it on to the request doesn't make any sense. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IO

2009-04-06T15:04:54+00:00

By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those. Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this flag. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based

2009-04-06T15:04:53+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: reduce stack footprint of blk_recount_segments()

2009-02-26T09:45:48+00:00

blk_recalc_rq_segments() requires a request structure passed in, which we don't have from blk_recount_segments(). So the latter allocates one on the stack, using > 400 bytes of stack for that. This can cause us to spill over one page of stack from ext4 at least: 0) 4560 400 blk_recount_segments+0x43/0x62 1) 4160 32 bio_phys_segments+0x1c/0x24 2) 4128 32 blk_rq_bio_prep+0x2a/0xf9 3) 4096 32 init_request_from_bio+0xf9/0xfe 4) 4064 112 __make_request+0x33c/0x3f6 5) 3952 144 generic_make_request+0x2d1/0x321 6) 3808 64 submit_bio+0xb9/0xc3 7) 3744 48 submit_bh+0xea/0x10e 8) 3696 368 ext4_mb_init_cache+0x257/0xa6a [ext4] 9) 3328 288 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x421/0xcd9 [ext4] 10) 3040 160 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x211/0x4b4 [ext4] 11) 2880 336 ext4_ext_get_blocks+0xb61/0xd45 [ext4] 12) 2544 96 ext4_get_blocks_wrap+0xf2/0x200 [ext4] 13) 2448 80 ext4_da_get_block_write+0x6e/0x16b [ext4] 14) 2368 352 mpage_da_map_blocks+0x7e/0x4b3 [ext4] 15) 2016 352 ext4_da_writepages+0x2ce/0x43c [ext4] 16) 1664 32 do_writepages+0x2d/0x3c 17) 1632 144 __writeback_single_inode+0x162/0x2cd 18) 1488 96 generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x1e3/0x32b 19) 1392 16 sync_sb_inodes+0xe/0x10 20) 1376 48 writeback_inodes+0x69/0xb3 21) 1328 208 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x187/0x2f9 22) 1120 224 generic_file_buffered_write+0x1d4/0x2c4 23) 896 176 __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x35f/0x393 24) 720 80 generic_file_aio_write+0x6c/0xc8 25) 640 80 ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x137 [ext4] 26) 560 320 do_sync_write+0xf0/0x137 27) 240 48 vfs_write+0xb3/0x13c 28) 192 64 sys_write+0x4c/0x74 29) 128 128 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Split the segment counting out into a __blk_recalc_rq_segments() helper to avoid allocating an onstack request just for checking the physical segment count. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix inconsistent parenthesisation of QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT

2009-02-02T07:43:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting

2009-01-30T11:34:38+00:00

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

block: seperate bio/request unplug and sync bits

2009-01-30T11:34:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe