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| author | Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> | 2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100 |
| commit | 488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c (patch) | |
| tree | fea5e0aca42e338137cc050e66aaeb5f539e3d21 /block | |
| parent | 47483e25205f1f8d79784f0f7c733941bc080ec0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c.tar.gz lwn-488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c.zip | |
block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).
The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.
nomerges Throughput %System Improvement (tput / %sys)
-------- ------------ ----------- -------------------------
0 12.45 MB/sec 0.669365609
1 12.50 MB/sec 0.641519199 0.40% / 2.71%
2 12.52 MB/sec 0.639849750 0.56% / 2.96%
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-sysfs.c | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/elevator.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c index 8606c9543fdd..e85442415db3 100644 --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c @@ -189,7 +189,8 @@ static ssize_t queue_nonrot_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, static ssize_t queue_nomerges_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page) { - return queue_var_show(blk_queue_nomerges(q), page); + return queue_var_show((blk_queue_nomerges(q) << 1) | + blk_queue_noxmerges(q), page); } static ssize_t queue_nomerges_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, @@ -199,10 +200,12 @@ static ssize_t queue_nomerges_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&nm, page, count); spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); - if (nm) + queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q); + queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q); + if (nm == 2) queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q); - else - queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q); + else if (nm) + queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q); spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); return ret; diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c index 9ad5ccc4c5ee..ee3a883840f2 100644 --- a/block/elevator.c +++ b/block/elevator.c @@ -474,6 +474,15 @@ int elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, struct bio *bio) int ret; /* + * Levels of merges: + * nomerges: No merges at all attempted + * noxmerges: Only simple one-hit cache try + * merges: All merge tries attempted + */ + if (blk_queue_nomerges(q)) + return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE; + + /* * First try one-hit cache. */ if (q->last_merge) { @@ -484,7 +493,7 @@ int elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, struct bio *bio) } } - if (blk_queue_nomerges(q)) + if (blk_queue_noxmerges(q)) return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE; /* |