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2011-06-06block: rename the return of two functionsPaul Bolle1-20/+20
If we rename the return of alloc_io_context() and get_io_context() from "ret" to "ioc" the code get's (a bit) more readable and (a lot) more grepable. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06CFQ: make two functions staticPaul Bolle1-3/+3
Correctly suggested by sparse. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignmentJens Axboe1-1/+4
Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold the lock protecting it around it. This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed to see it a lot. Tracked in RH bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968 Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his hard work the issue is now fixed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignmentJens Axboe1-1/+4
Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold the lock protecting it around it. This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed to see it a lot. Tracked in RH bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968 Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his hard work the issue is now fixed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/OJeff Moyer3-15/+5
Hi, Jens, If you recall, I posted an RFC patch for this back in July of last year: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/279 The basic problem is that a process can issue a never-ending stream of async direct I/Os to the same sector on a device, thus starving out other I/O in the system (due to the way the alias handling works in both cfq and deadline). The solution I proposed back then was to start dispatching from the fifo after a certain number of aliases had been dispatched. Vivek asked why we had to treat aliases differently at all, and I never had a good answer. So, I put together a simple patch which allows aliases to be added to the rb tree (it adds them to the right, though that doesn't matter as the order isn't guaranteed anyway). I think this is the preferred solution, as it doesn't break up time slices in CFQ or batches in deadline. I've tested it, and it does solve the starvation issue. Let me know what you think. Cheers, Jeff Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02block: Use hlist_entry() for io_context.cic_list.firstPaul Bolle1-2/+2
list_entry() and hlist_entry() are both simply aliases for container_of(), but since io_context.cic_list.first is an hlist_node one should at least use the correct alias. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02cfq-iosched: Remove bogus check in queue_fail pathPaul Bolle1-3/+0
queue_fail can only be reached if cic is NULL, so its check for cic must be bogus. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-31CFQ: Fix typo and remove unnecessary semicolonKyungmin Park1-4/+4
Fix comment typo and remove unnecessary semicolon at macro Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-27Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2-4/+3
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: loop: export module parameters block: export blk_{get,put}_queue() block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge() block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implemented brd: export module parameters brd: fix comment on initial device creation brd: handle on-demand devices correctly brd: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS brd: get rid of unused members from struct brd_device block: fix oops on !disk->queue and sysfs discard alignment display
2011-05-27block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()Jens Axboe1-0/+2
We need them in SCSI to fix a bug, but currently they are not exported to modules. Export them. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacksBen Blum1-12/+6
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks for cgroups's subsystem interface. Unlike can_attach and attach, these are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when attaching an entire threadgroup. Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by this. All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped (though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to attach_task and attach. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()Luca Tettamanti1-3/+0
sector is never read inside the function. Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implementedTejun Heo1-1/+1
9fd097b149 (block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers) removed DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from legacy/fringe block drivers which have inadequate ->check_events(). Combined with earlier change 7c88a168da (block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland), this enables using ->check_events() for internal processing while avoiding enabling in-kernel block event polling which can lead to infinite event loop. Unfortunately, this made many drivers including floppy without any bit set in disk->events and ->async_events in which case disk_add_events() simply skipped allocation of disk->ev, which disables whole event handling. As ->check_events() is still used during open processing for revalidation, this can lead to open failure. This patch always allocates disk->ev if ->check_events is implemented. In the long term, it would make sense to simply include the event structure inline into genhd as it's now used by virtually all block devices. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Reported-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24cfq-iosched: free cic_index if cfqd allocation failsNamhyung Kim1-1/+5
When struct cfq_data allocation fails, cic_index need to be freed. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24cfq-iosched: remove unused 'group_changed' in cfq_service_tree_add()Namhyung Kim1-2/+1
The 'group_changed' variable is initialized to 0 and never changed, so checking the variable is meaningless. It is a leftover from 0bbfeb832042 ("cfq-iosched: Always provide group iosolation."). Let's get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24cfq-iosched: reduce bit operations in cfq_choose_req()Namhyung Kim1-9/+5
Reduce the number of bit operations in cfq_choose_req() on average (and worst) cases. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24cfq-iosched: algebraic simplification in cfq_prio_to_maxrq()Namhyung Kim1-1/+1
Simplify the calculation in cfq_prio_to_maxrq(), plus replace CFQ_PRIO_LISTS to IOPRIO_BE_NR since they are the same and IOPRIO_BE_NR looks more reasonable in this context IMHO. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23blk-cgroup: Initialize ioc->cgroup_changed at ioc creation timeVivek Goyal1-0/+3
If we don't explicitly initialize it to zero, CFQ might think that cgroup of ioc has changed and it generates lots of unnecessary calls to call_for_each_cic(changed_cgroup). Fix it. cfq_get_io_context() cfq_ioc_set_cgroup() call_for_each_cic(ioc, changed_cgroup) Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23block: call elv_bio_merged() when mergedVivek Goyal1-0/+2
Commit 73c101011926 ("block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging") removed calls to elv_bio_merged() when @bio merged with @req. Re-add them. This in turn will update merged stats in associated group. That should be safe as long as request has got reference to the blkio_group. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23cfq-iosched: Make IO merge related stats per cpuVivek Goyal2-7/+19
Make BLKIO_STAT_MERGED per cpu hence gettring rid of need of taking blkg->stats_lock. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23cfq-iosched: Fix a memory leak of per cpu stats for root groupVivek Goyal1-0/+5
We allocated per cpu stats struct for root group but did not free it. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20block: get rid of on-stack plugging debug checksJens Axboe2-31/+0
We don't need them anymore, so kill: - REQ_ON_PLUG checks in various places - !rq_mergeable() check in plug merging Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.40/coreJens Axboe1-1/+3
This patch merges in a fix that missed 2.6.39 final. Conflicts: block/blk.h
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Make no throttling rule group processing locklessVivek Goyal1-4/+49
Currently we take a queue lock on each bio to check if there are any throttling rules associated with the group and also update the stats. Now access the group under rcu and update the stats without taking the queue lock. Queue lock is taken only if there are throttling rules associated with the group. So the common case of root group when there are no rules, save unnecessary pounding of request queue lock. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-cgroup: Make cgroup stat reset path blkg->lock free for dispatch statsVivek Goyal1-0/+28
Now dispatch stats update is lock free. But reset of these stats still takes blkg->stats_lock and is dependent on that. As stats are per cpu, we should be able to just reset the stats on each cpu without any locks. (Atleast for 64bit arch). On 32bit arch there is a small race where 64bit updates are not atomic. The result of this race can be that in the presence of other writers, one might not get 0 value after reset of a stat and might see something intermediate One can write more complicated code to cover this race like sending IPI to other cpus to reset stats and for offline cpus, reset these directly. Right not I am not taking that path because reset_update is more of a debug feature and it can happen only on 32bit arch and possibility of it happening is small. Will fix it if it becomes a real problem. For the time being going for code simplicity. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-cgroup: Make 64bit per cpu stats safe on 32bit archVivek Goyal2-5/+24
Some of the stats are 64bit and updation will be non atomic on 32bit architecture. Use sequence counters on 32bit arch to make reading of stats safe. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Make dispatch stats per cpuVivek Goyal4-42/+147
Currently we take blkg_stat lock for even updating the stats. So even if a group has no throttling rules (common case for root group), we end up taking blkg_lock, for updating the stats. Make dispatch stats per cpu so that these can be updated without taking blkg lock. If cpu goes offline, these stats simply disappear. No protection has been provided for that yet. Do we really need anything for that? Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Free up a group only after one rcu grace periodVivek Goyal1-1/+21
Soon we will allow accessing a throtl_grp under rcu_read_lock(). Hence start freeing up throtl_grp after one rcu grace period. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Use helper function to add root throtl group to listsVivek Goyal1-3/+1
Use same helper function for root group as we use with dynamically allocated groups to add it to various lists. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Introduce a helper function to fill in device detailsVivek Goyal1-12/+23
A helper function for the code which is used at 2-3 places. Makes reading code little easier. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Dynamically allocate root groupVivek Goyal1-15/+12
Currently, we allocate root throtl_grp statically. But as we will be introducing per cpu stat pointers and that will be allocated dynamically even for root group, we might as well make whole root throtl_grp allocation dynamic and treat it in same manner as other groups. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-cgroup: Allow sleeping while dynamically allocating a groupVivek Goyal3-67/+205
Currently, all the cfq_group or throtl_group allocations happen while we are holding ->queue_lock and sleeping is not allowed. Soon, we will move to per cpu stats and also need to allocate the per group stats. As one can not call alloc_percpu() from atomic context as it can sleep, we need to drop ->queue_lock, allocate the group, retake the lock and continue processing. In throttling code, I check the queue DEAD flag again to make sure that driver did not call blk_cleanup_queue() in the mean time. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20cfq-iosched: Fix a possible race with cfq cgroup removal codeVivek Goyal1-12/+36
blkg->key = cfqd is an rcu protected pointer and hence we used to do call_rcu(cfqd->rcu_head) to free up cfqd after one rcu grace period. The problem here is that even though cfqd is around, there are no gurantees that associated request queue (td->queue) or q->queue_lock is still around. A driver might have called blk_cleanup_queue() and release the lock. It might happen that after freeing up the lock we call blkg->key->queue->queue_ock and crash. This is possible in following path. blkiocg_destroy() blkio_unlink_group_fn() cfq_unlink_blkio_group() Hence, wait for an rcu peirod if there are groups which have not been unlinked from blkcg->blkg_list. That way, if there are any groups which are taking cfq_unlink_blkio_group() path, can safely take queue lock. This is how we have taken care of race in throttling logic also. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20cfq-iosched: Get rid of redundant function parameter "create"Vivek Goyal1-9/+9
Nobody seems to be using cfq_find_alloc_cfqg() function parameter "create". Get rid of that. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-cgroup: move some fields of unaccounted_time file under right config optionVivek Goyal2-3/+6
cgroup unaccounted_time file is created only if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y. there are some fields which are out side this config option. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20blk-throttle: Do the new group initialization with the help of a functionVivek Goyal1-29/+35
Group initialization code seems to be at two places. root group initialization in blk_throtl_init() and dynamically allocated group in throtl_find_alloc_tg(). Create a common function and use at both the places. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/coreJens Axboe9-44/+43
Since for-2.6.40/core was forked off the 2.6.39 devel tree, we've had churn in the core area that makes it difficult to handle patches for eg cfq or blk-throttle. Instead of requiring that they be based in older versions with bugs that have been fixed later in the rc cycle, merge in 2.6.39 final. Also fixes up conflicts in the below files. Conflicts: drivers/block/paride/pcd.c drivers/cdrom/viocd.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18block: add proper state guards to __elv_next_requestJames Bottomley1-1/+2
blk_cleanup_queue() calls elevator_exit() and after this, we can't touch the elevator without oopsing. __elv_next_request() must check for this state because in the refcounted queue model, we can still call it after blk_cleanup_queue() has been called. This was reported as causing an oops attributable to scsi. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18block: don't delay blk_run_queue_asyncShaohua Li1-1/+3
Let's check a scenario: 1. blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY); 2. blk_run_queue_async(); the second one will became a noop, because q->delay_work already has WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT set, so the delayed work will still run after SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY. But blk_run_queue_async actually hopes the delayed work runs immediately. Fix this by doing a cancel on potentially pending delayed work before queuing an immediate run of the workqueue. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18block: Fix discard topology stacking and reportingMartin K. Petersen2-2/+4
In some cases we would end up stacking discard_zeroes_data incorrectly. Fix this by enabling the feature by default for stacking drivers and clearing it for low-level drivers. Incorporating a device that does not support dzd will then cause the feature to be disabled in the stacking driver. Also ensure that the maximum discard value does not overflow when exported in sysfs and return 0 in the alignment and dzd fields for devices that don't support discard. Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-16blk-throttle: Use task_subsys_state() to determine a task's blkio_cgroupVivek Goyal4-11/+19
Currentlly we first map the task to cgroup and then cgroup to blkio_cgroup. There is a more direct way to get to blkio_cgroup from task using task_subsys_state(). Use that. The real reason for the fix is that it also avoids a race in generic cgroup code. During remount/umount rebind_subsystems() is called and it can do following with and rcu protection. cgrp->subsys[i] = NULL; That means if somebody got hold of cgroup under rcu and then it tried to do cgroup->subsys[] to get to blkio_cgroup, it would get NULL which is wrong. I was running into this race condition with ltp running on a upstream derived kernel and that lead to crash. So ideally we should also fix cgroup generic code to wait for rcu grace period before setting pointer to NULL. Li Zefan is not very keen on introducing synchronize_wait() as he thinks it will slow down moun/remount/umount operations. So for the time being atleast fix the kernel crash by taking a more direct route to blkio_cgroup. One tester had reported a crash while running LTP on a derived kernel and with this fix crash is no more seen while the test has been running for over 6 days. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06blkdev: Do not return -EOPNOTSUPP if discard is supportedLukas Czerner1-7/+2
Currently we return -EOPNOTSUPP in blkdev_issue_discard() if any of the bio fails due to underlying device not supporting discard request. However, if the device is for example dm device composed of devices which some of them support discard and some of them does not, it is ok for some bios to fail with EOPNOTSUPP, but it does not mean that discard is not supported at all. This commit removes the check for bios failed with EOPNOTSUPP and change blkdev_issue_discard() to return operation not supported if and only if the device does not actually supports it, not just part of the device as some bios might indicate. This change also fixes problem with BLKDISCARD ioctl() which now works correctly on such dm devices. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06blkdev: Simple cleanup in blkdev_issue_zeroout()Lukas Czerner1-14/+0
In blkdev_issue_zeroout() we are submitting regular WRITE bios, so we do not need to check for -EOPNOTSUPP specifically in case of error. Also there is no need to have label submit: because there is no way to jump out from the while cycle without an error and we really want to exit, rather than try again. And also remove the check for (sz == 0) since at that point sz can never be zero. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06blkdev: Submit discard bio in batches in blkdev_issue_discard()Lukas Czerner1-40/+29
Currently we are waiting for every submitted REQ_DISCARD bio separately, but it can have unwanted consequences of repeatedly flushing the queue, so we rather submit bios in batches and wait for the entire batch, hence narrowing the window of other ios going in. Use bio_batch_end_io() and struct bio_batch for that purpose, the same is used by blkdev_issue_zeroout(). Also change bio_batch_end_io() so we always set !BIO_UPTODATE in the case of error and remove the check for bb, since we are the only user of this function and we always set this. Remove bio_get()/bio_put() from the blkdev_issue_discard() since bio_alloc() and bio_batch_end_io() is doing the same thing, hence it is not needed anymore. I have done simple dd testing with surprising results. The script I have used is: for i in $(seq 10); do echo $i dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4k & sleep 5 done /usr/bin/time -f %e ./blkdiscard /dev/sdc1 Running time of BLKDISCARD on the whole device: with patch without patch 0.95 15.58 So we can see that in this artificial test the kernel with the patch applied is approx 16x faster in discarding the device. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06block: hold queue if flush is running for non-queueable flush driveshaohua.li@intel.com2-6/+31
In some drives, flush requests are non-queueable. When flush request is running, normal read/write requests can't run. If block layer dispatches such request, driver can't handle it and requeue it. Tejun suggested we can hold the queue when flush is running. This can avoid unnecessary requeue. Also this can improve performance. For example, we have request flush1, write1, flush 2. flush1 is dispatched, then queue is hold, write1 isn't inserted to queue. After flush1 is finished, flush2 will be dispatched. Since disk cache is already clean, flush2 will be finished very soon, so looks like flush2 is folded to flush1. In my test, the queue holding completely solves a regression introduced by commit 53d63e6b0dfb95882ec0219ba6bbd50cde423794: block: make the flush insertion use the tail of the dispatch list It's not a preempt type request, in fact we have to insert it behind requests that do specify INSERT_FRONT. which causes about 20% regression running a sysbench fileio workload. Stable: 2.6.39 only Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06block: add a non-queueable flush flagshaohua.li@intel.com1-0/+6
flush request isn't queueable in some drives. Add a flag to let driver notify block layer about this. We can optimize flush performance with the knowledge. Stable: 2.6.39 only Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-05iosched: remove redundant sprintfKees Cook1-6/+1
After the anticipatory scheduler was dropped, there was no need to special-case the request_module string. As such, drop the redundant sprintf and stack variable. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-05block: Remove 'plug/unplug' comment in blk_execute_rq_nowaitTao Ma1-1/+1
unplug is replaced with blk_run_queue now in blk_execute_rq_nowait, so change the comment accordingly. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-21block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userlandTejun Heo1-2/+6
DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE is used for both userland visible event and internal event for revalidation of removeable devices. Some legacy drivers don't implement proper event detection and continuously generate events under certain circumstances. For example, ide-cd generates media changed continuously if there's no media in the drive, which can lead to infinite loop of events jumping back and forth between the driver and userland event handler. This patch updates disk event infrastructure such that it never propagates events not listed in disk->events to userland. Those events are processed the same for internal purposes but uevent generation is suppressed. This also ensures that userland only gets events which are advertised in the @events sysfs node lowering risk of confusion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-21elevator: check for ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE in !elvpriv case tooJens Axboe1-1/+2
The sort insert is the one that goes to the IO scheduler. With the SORT_MERGE addition, we could bypass IO scheduler setup but still ask the IO scheduler to insert the request. This would cause an oops on switching IO schedulers through the sysfs interface, unless the disk just happened to be idle while it occured. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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