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Author SHA1 Message Date
Chandra Seetharaman
054cc8a2d8 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17
This patch reverts notifier_block changes made in 2.6.17

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
d6e05edc59 spelling fixes
acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26 18:35:02 +02:00
Andi Kleen
8269730b38 [BLOCK] Fix bounce limit address check
Do a safer check for when to enable DMA. Currently we enable ISA DMA
for cases that do not need it, resulting in OOM conditions when ZONE_DMA
runs out of space.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
dd67d05152 [PATCH] rbtree: support functions used by the io schedulers
They all duplicate macros to check for empty root and/or node, and
clearing a node. So put those in rbtree.h.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
fd61af0384 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: rq update fixes
- Remember to set ->last_sector so that the cfq_choose_req() logic
  works correctly.

- Remove redundant call to cfq_choose_req()

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
caaa5f9f0a [PATCH] cfq-iosched: many performance fixes
This is a collection of patches that greatly improve CFQ performance
in some circumstances.

- Change the idling logic to only kick in after a request is done and we
  are deciding what to do. Before the idling included the request service
  time, so it was hard to adjust. Now it's true think/idle time.

- Take advantage of TCQ/NCQ/queueing for seeky sync workloads, but keep
  it in control for sync and sequential (or close to) workloads.

- Expire queues immediately and move on to other busy queues, if we are
  not going to idle after the current one finishes.

- Don't rearm idle timer if there are no busy queues. Just leave the
  system idle.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
35e6077cb1 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: correctly set ioprio on both targets
Patch originally from Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@sw.ru>

If you set io-priority of process 1 using sys_ioprio_set system call by
another process 2 (like ionice do), then cfq_init_prio_data() function
sets priority of process 2 (current) on queue of process 1 and clears
the flag, that designates change of ioprio.  So the process  1 will work
like with priority of process 2.

I propose not to call cfq_init_prio_data() on io-priority change, but
only mark queue as queue with changed prority.  Every time when new
request comes cfq-scheduler checks for this flag and atomaticaly changes
priority of queue to new value.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b17fd9bceb [PATCH] Make CFQ the default IO scheduler
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b31dc66a54 [PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag
A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly
ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async
io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async,
and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the
previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ,
this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling.

Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let
the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync
by using WRITE_SYNC instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
271f18f102 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: Don't set the queue batching limits
We cannot update them if the user changes nr_requests, so don't
set it in the first place. The gains are pretty questionable as
well. The batching loss has been shown to decrease throughput.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:38 +02:00
Dave Jones
acf4217555 [PATCH] remove dead code from elevator switching
We already drop the refcount in elevator_exit(), and as
we're setting 'e' to NULL, we'll never take that branch anyway.
Finally, as 'e' is a local var that isn't referenced afterwards,
setting it to NULL is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:38 +02:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
a038e25364 [PATCH] blk_start_queue() must be called with irq disabled - add warning
The queue lock can be taken from interrupts so it must always be taken with
irq disabling primitives.  Some primitives already verify this.
blk_start_queue() is called under this lock, so interrupts must be
disabled.

Also document this requirement clearly in blk_init_queue(), where the queue
spinlock is set.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:38 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
bae386f788 [PATCH] iosched: use hlist for request hashtable
Use hlist instead of list_head for request hashtable in deadline-iosched
and as-iosched. It also can remove the flag to know hashed or unhashed.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

 block/as-iosched.c       |   45 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 block/deadline-iosched.c |   39 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
2006-06-23 17:10:38 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
626ab0e69d [PATCH] list: use list_replace_init() instead of list_splice_init()
list_splice_init(list, head) does unneeded job if it is known that
list_empty(head) == 1.  We can use list_replace_init() instead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:43:07 -07:00
Kay Sievers
b9d9c82b4d [PATCH] Driver core: add generic "subsystem" link to all devices
Like the SUBSYTEM= key we find in the environment of the uevent, this
creates a generic "subsystem" link in sysfs for every device. Userspace
usually doesn't care at all if its a "class" or a "bus" device. This
provides an unified way to determine the subsytem of a device, regardless
of the way the driver core has created it.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6b41fd1785 Fix up CFQ scheduler for recent rbtree node shrinkage
The color is now in the low bits of the parent pointer, and initializing
it to 0 happens as part of the whole memset above, so just remove the
unnecessary RB_CLEAR_COLOR.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-20 19:44:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2edc322d42 Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/rbtree-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/rbtree-2.6:
  [RBTREE] Switch rb_colour() et al to en_US spelling of 'color' for consistency
  Update UML kernel/physmem.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro
  [RBTREE] Update hrtimers to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
  [RBTREE] Add explicit alignment to sizeof(long) for struct rb_node.
  [RBTREE] Merge colour and parent fields of struct rb_node.
  [RBTREE] Remove dead code in rb_erase()
  [RBTREE] Update JFFS2 to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
  [RBTREE] Update eventpoll.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
  [RBTREE] Update key.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
  [RBTREE] Update ext3 to use rb_parent() accessor macro.
  [RBTREE] Change rbtree off-tree marking in I/O schedulers.
  [RBTREE] Add accessor macros for colour and parent fields of rb_node
2006-06-20 14:51:22 -07:00
Jens Axboe
553698f944 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: fix crash in do_div()
We don't clear the seek stat values in cfq_alloc_io_context(), and if
->seek_mean is unlucky enough to be set to -36 by chance, the first
invocation of cfq_update_io_seektime() will oops with a divide by zero
in do_div().

Just memset the entire cic instead of filling invididual values
independently.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-14 10:22:16 -07:00
Jens Axboe
bc1c116974 [PATCH] elevator switching race
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the
next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be
invoked with bad or NULL data.

To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer.
Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be
run without the lock held.  This isn't easily fixable, without also
changing the mempool API.  So split the initialization into two parts,
and alloc-init operation and an attach operation.  Then we can
preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach
inside the lock after we detach the old one.

This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching
with a very busy io load.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:14:23 -07:00
Jens Axboe
b52a834892 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: busy_rr fairness fix
Now that we select busy_rr for possible service, insert entries at the
back of that list instead of at the front.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-01 18:53:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe
ae818a38d4 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: fix bug in timer handling for the idle class
There's a small window from when the timer is entered and we grab
the queue lock, where cfq_set_active_queue() could be rearming the
timer for us. Seen in the wild on a 12-way ppc box. Fix this by
just using mod_timer(), which will do the right thing for us.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-01 10:13:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe
25776e3594 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: Detect hardware queueing
If the hardware is doing real queueing, decide that it's worthless to
idle the hardware. It does reasonable simultaneous io in that case
anyways, and the idling hurts some work loads.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-01 10:12:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe
12e9fddd6e [PATCH] cfq-iosched: Detect idle process issuing async request
If we are anticipating a sync request from this process and we are
waiting for that and see an async request come in, expire that slice
and move on.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-01 10:09:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e0de0206a2 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: check busy queues before deciding we are idle
For just one busy queue (like async write out), we often overlooked
that we could queue more io and decided we were idle instead. This causes
us quite a bit of performance loss.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-01 10:07:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe
3793c65c13 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: fixup locking and ->queue_list list management
- Drop cic from the list when seen as dead.
- Fixup the locking, just use a simple spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-30 20:31:05 -07:00
Jens Axboe
fd0ff8aa1d [PATCH] blk: fix gendisk->in_flight accounting during barrier sequence
While executing barrrier sequence, the bar_rq which carries actual
write was accounted as normal IO on completion, while it wasn't on
queueing.  This caused gendisk->in_flight to be decremented by 1 after
each barrier thus messed up statistics.

This patch makes bar_rq not accounted as normal IO.  As the containing
barrier request as a whole is accounted, part of it shouldn't be.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-23 10:39:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1a2acc9e92 Revert "[BLOCK] Fix oops on removal of SD/MMC card"
This reverts commit 56cf6504fc.

Both Erik Mouw and Andrew Vasquez independently pinpointed this commit
as causing problems, where the slab cache for a driver is never released
(most obviously causing problems when immediately re-loading that
driver, resulting in a "kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache <xyz>"
message, but it can also cause other trouble).

James Bottomley dug into it, and reports:

  "OK, here's the scoop.  The problem patch adds a get of driverfs_dev in
   add_disk(), but doesn't put it again until disk_release() (which occurs
   on final put_disk() of the gendisk).

   However, in SCSI, the driverfs_dev is the sdev_gendev.  That means
   there's a reference held on sdev_gendev  until final disk put.
   Unfortunately, we use the driver model driver_remove to trigger
   del_gendisk (which removes the gendisk from visibility and decrements
   the refcount), so we've introduced an unbreakable deadlock in the
   reference counting with this.

   I suggest simply reversing this patch at the moment.  If Russell and
   Jens can tell me what they're trying to do I'll see if there's another
   way to do it."

so hereby the patch gets reverted, waiting for a better fix.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-12 12:08:46 -07:00
Jens Axboe
dac07ec121 [BLOCK] limit request_fn recursion
Don't recurse back into the driver even if the unplug threshold is met,
when the driver asks for a requeue. This is both silly from a logical
point of view (requeues typically happen due to driver/hardware
shortage), and also dangerous since we could hit an endless request_fn
-> requeue -> unplug -> request_fn loop and crash on stack overrun.

Also limit blk_run_queue() to one level of recursion, similar to how
blk_start_queue() works.

This patch fixed a real problem with SLES10 and lpfc, and it could hit
any SCSI lld that returns non-zero from it's ->queuecommand() handler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-11 12:38:59 -07:00
Russell King
56cf6504fc [BLOCK] Fix oops on removal of SD/MMC card
The block layer keeps a reference (driverfs_dev) to the struct
device associated with the block device, and uses it internally
for generating uevents in block_uevent.

Block device uevents include umounting the partition, which can
occur after the backing device has been removed.

Unfortunately, this reference is not counted.  This means that
if the struct device is removed from the device tree, the block
layers reference will become stale.

Guard against this by holding a reference to the struct device
in add_disk(), and only drop the reference when we're releasing
the gendisk kobject - in other words when we can be sure that no
further uevents will be generated for this block device.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-05 17:57:52 +01:00
Chandra Seetharaman
649bbaa484 [PATCH] Remove __devinitdata from notifier block definitions
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __devinitdata in the
definition of notifier_block data structure.  It is incorrect as the
data structure should be available after the initializations (they do
not unregister them during initializations).

This was leading to an oops when notifier_chain_register() call is
invoked for those callback chains after initialization.

This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_block data
structure in the init data section.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-26 08:27:50 -07:00
David Woodhouse
3db3a44530 [RBTREE] Change rbtree off-tree marking in I/O schedulers.
They were abusing the rb_color field to mark nodes which weren't currently
on the tree. Fix that to use the same method as eventpoll did -- setting
the parent pointer to point back to itself. And use the appropriate
accessor macros for setting and reading the parent.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-04-21 13:15:17 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
4f73247f0e [PATCH] block/elevator.c: remove unused exports
This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- elv_requeue_request
- elv_completed_request

They are only used by the block core, hence they need not be exported.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-20 15:45:22 +02:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
7daac49020 [patch] cleanup: use blk_queue_stopped
This cleanup the source to use blk_queue_stopped.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@freeforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-20 13:04:36 +02:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
be3b075354 [PATCH] cfq: Further rbtree traversal and cfq_exit_queue() race fix
In current code, we are re-reading cic->key after dead cic->key check.
So, in theory, it may really re-read *after* cfq_exit_queue() seted NULL.

To avoid race, we copy it to stack, then use it. With this change, I
guess gcc will assign cic->key to a register or stack, and it wouldn't
be re-readed.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-18 19:18:31 +02:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
dbecf3ab40 [PATCH 2/2] cfq: fix cic's rbtree traversal
When queue dies, we set cic->key=NULL as dead mark. So, when we
traverse a rbtree, we must check whether it's still valid key. if it
was invalidated, drop it, then restart the traversal from top.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-18 09:45:18 +02:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
fba822722e [PATCH 1/2] iosched: fix typo and barrier()
On rmmod path, cfq/as waits to make sure all io-contexts was
freed. However, it's using complete(), not wait_for_completion().

I think barrier() is not enough in here. To avoid the following case,
this patch replaces barrier() with smb_wmb().

	cpu0			visibility			cpu1
	                [ioc_gnone=NULL,ioc_count=1]

ioc_gnone = &all_gone		NULL,ioc_count=1
atomic_read(&ioc_count)		NULL,ioc_count=1
wait_for_completion()		NULL,ioc_count=0	atomic_sub_and_test()
				NULL,ioc_count=0	if ( && ioc_gone)
						    [ioc_gone==NULL,
						    so doesn't call complete()]
			   &all_gone,ioc_count=0

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-18 09:44:06 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
21b2f0c803 [SCSI] unify SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND implementations
We currently have two implementations of this obsolete ioctl, one in
the block layer and one in the scsi code.  Both of them have drawbacks.

This patch kills the scsi layer version after updating the block version
with the missing bits:

 - argument checking
 - use scatterlist I/O
 - set number of retries based on the submitted command

This is the last user of non-S/G I/O except for the gdth driver, so
getting this in ASAP and through the scsi tree would be nie to kill
the non-S/G I/O path.  Jens, what do you think about adding a check
for non-S/G I/O in the midlayer?

Thanks to  Or Gerlitz for testing this patch.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-04-13 10:13:15 -05:00
Martin Waitz
a580290c3e Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warnings
This patch updates the comments to match the actual code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-02 13:59:55 +02:00
Trond Myklebust
88b9adb073 [PATCH] config: fix CONFIG_LFS option
The help text says that if you select CONFIG_LBD, then it will automatically
select CONFIG_LFS.  That isn't currently the case, so update the text.

- Get rid of the cruft in the help text mentioning CONFIG_LBD

- Tell unsure users to select CONFIG_LFS.

- Remove the `default n'.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:55 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9b41046cd0 [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[]
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).

And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().

	start_kernel()
		-> parse_args()
			-> unknown_bootoption()
				-> obsolete_checksetup()

If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
handled.

If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
a parameter is seted to argv_init[].

Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.

This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Joe Korty
68eef3b479 [PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regression
Make baby-simple the code for /proc/devices.  Based on the proven design
for /proc/interrupts.

This also fixes the early-termination regression 2.6.16 introduced, as
demonstrated by:

    # dd if=/proc/devices bs=1
    Character devices:
      1 mem
    27+0 records in
    27+0 records out

This should also work (but is untested) when /proc/devices >4096 bytes,
which I believe is what the original 2.6.16 rewrite fixed.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7baf398f12 Merge branch 'cfq-merge' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'cfq-merge' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: seek and async performance fixes
  [PATCH] ll_rw_blk: fix 80-col offender in put_io_context()
  [PATCH] cfq-iosched: small cfq_choose_req() optimization
  [PATCH] [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: change cfq io context linking from list to tree
2006-03-28 09:25:44 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
0a94502277 [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic part
replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu().

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
Jens Axboe
206dc69b31 [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: seek and async performance fixes
Detect whether a given process is seeky and if so disable (mostly) the
idle window if it is. We still allow just a little idle time, just enough
to allow that process to submit a new request. That is needed to maintain
fairness across priority groups.

In some cases, we could setup several async queues. This is not optimal
from a performance POV, since we want all async io in one queue to perform
good sorting on it. It also impacted sync queues, as async io got too much
slice time.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-28 13:03:44 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7143dd4b01 [PATCH] ll_rw_blk: fix 80-col offender in put_io_context()
This makes akpm more happy.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-28 09:00:28 +02:00
Andreas Mohr
e8a99053ea [PATCH] cfq-iosched: small cfq_choose_req() optimization
this is a small optimization to cfq_choose_req() in the CFQ I/O scheduler
(this function is a semi-often invoked candidate in an oprofile log):
by using a bit mask variable, we can use a simple switch() to check
the various cases instead of having to query two variables for each check.
Benefit: 251 vs. 285 bytes footprint of cfq_choose_req().
Also, common case 0 (no request wrapping) is now checked first in code.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-28 08:59:49 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e2d74ac066 [PATCH] [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: change cfq io context linking from list to tree
On setups with many disks, we spend a considerable amount of time
looking up the process-disk mapping on each queue of io. Testing with
a NULL based block driver, this costs 40-50% reduction in throughput
for 1000 disks.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-28 08:59:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
4fa639123d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  [PATCH] Don't make debugfs depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
  [PATCH] Fix blktrace compile with sysfs not defined
  [PATCH] unused label in drivers/block/cciss.
  [BLOCK] increase size of disk stat counters
  [PATCH] blk_execute_rq_nowait-speedup
  [PATCH] ide-cd: quiet down GPCMD_READ_CDVD_CAPACITY failure
  [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: kmalloc -> kzalloc conversion
  [PATCH] kzalloc() conversion in drivers/block
  [PATCH] update max_sectors documentation
2006-03-27 08:46:49 -08:00
NeilBrown
89e5c8b5b8 [PATCH] md: Make sure QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER is set properly for md.
This flag should be set for a virtual device iff it is set for all underlying
devices.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:45:00 -08:00
Jens Axboe
09540e691d [PATCH] Fix blktrace compile with sysfs not defined
debugfs depends on sysfs, so make blktrace kconfig option depend
on that.

Reported by Adrian Bunk.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-27 09:29:03 +02:00