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| author | Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> | 2013-03-19 21:16:58 +0400 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2013-03-23 08:18:09 +0400 |
| commit | 45ad07b3ac1e3062188fb760fe71cafb4a100215 (patch) | |
| tree | 3911830e2d53a830007f6d70fdac39d00d065bb2 /drivers/block | |
| parent | 7e8c288f6cde950a6ca001ec06a32c8c2cf4180e (diff) | |
| download | linux-45ad07b3ac1e3062188fb760fe71cafb4a100215.tar.xz | |
drbd: try hard to max out the updates per AL transaction
There may have been more incoming requests while we where preparing
the current transaction. Try to consolidate more updates into this
transaction until we make no more progres.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c index d72f2fef1cba..9f7ff1cb46ff 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c @@ -1226,6 +1226,37 @@ void do_submit(struct work_struct *ws) break; wait_event(mdev->al_wait, prepare_al_transaction_nonblock(mdev, &incoming, &pending)); + /* Maybe more was queued, while we prepared the transaction? + * Try to stuff them into this transaction as well. + * Be strictly non-blocking here, no wait_event, we already + * have something to commit. + * Stop if we don't make any more progres. + */ + for (;;) { + LIST_HEAD(more_pending); + LIST_HEAD(more_incoming); + bool made_progress; + + /* It is ok to look outside the lock, + * it's only an optimization anyways */ + if (list_empty(&mdev->submit.writes)) + break; + + spin_lock(&mdev->submit.lock); + list_splice_tail_init(&mdev->submit.writes, &more_incoming); + spin_unlock(&mdev->submit.lock); + + if (list_empty(&more_incoming)) + break; + + made_progress = prepare_al_transaction_nonblock(mdev, &more_incoming, &more_pending); + + list_splice_tail_init(&more_pending, &pending); + list_splice_tail_init(&more_incoming, &incoming); + + if (!made_progress) + break; + } drbd_al_begin_io_commit(mdev, false); list_for_each_entry_safe(req, tmp, &pending, tl_requests) { |