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| author | Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> | 2008-04-29 16:44:19 +0400 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-04-29 16:48:55 +0400 |
| commit | ac9fafa1243640349aa481adf473db283a695766 (patch) | |
| tree | 155c2371cca8971638d781269f39fa015bc6509c /include/linux/blkdev.h | |
| parent | d7e3c3249ef23b4617393c69fe464765b4ff1645 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ac9fafa1243640349aa481adf473db283a695766.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 08df1ea8bac4..c09696a90d6a 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ struct request_queue #define QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED 7 /* queue is plugged */ #define QUEUE_FLAG_ELVSWITCH 8 /* don't use elevator, just do FIFO */ #define QUEUE_FLAG_BIDI 9 /* queue supports bidi requests */ +#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES 10 /* disable merge attempts */ static inline void queue_flag_set_unlocked(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q) @@ -476,6 +477,7 @@ enum { #define blk_queue_plugged(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED, &(q)->queue_flags) #define blk_queue_tagged(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED, &(q)->queue_flags) #define blk_queue_stopped(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &(q)->queue_flags) +#define blk_queue_nomerges(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags) #define blk_queue_flushing(q) ((q)->ordseq) #define blk_fs_request(rq) ((rq)->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_FS) |