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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-04-06 14:48:07 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-06 08:04:54 -0700
commitaeb6fafb8fa53266d70ca7474fcda2bdaf96524a (patch)
treeebe8e0c616a9dbfdfe5184b64d0150ea02d3d1b2
parent644b2d99b7a8677a56909a7b1fde31677eba4471 (diff)
block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IO
By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those. Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this flag. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--block/blk-core.c2
-rw-r--r--block/cfq-iosched.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/direct-io.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/bio.h19
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h9
6 files changed, 25 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index c4198f083e5b..25572802dac2 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1128,6 +1128,8 @@ void init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio)
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_UNPLUG;
if (bio_rw_meta(bio))
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_RW_META;
+ if (bio_noidle(bio))
+ req->cmd_flags |= REQ_NOIDLE;
req->errors = 0;
req->hard_sector = req->sector = bio->bi_sector;
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 664ebfd092ec..9e809345f71a 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -1992,8 +1992,10 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
}
if (cfq_slice_used(cfqq) || cfq_class_idle(cfqq))
cfq_slice_expired(cfqd, 1);
- else if (sync && RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list))
+ else if (sync && !rq_noidle(rq) &&
+ RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&cfqq->sort_list)) {
cfq_arm_slice_timer(cfqd);
+ }
}
if (!cfqd->rq_in_driver)
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index b6d43908ff7a..da258e7249cc 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
int acquire_i_mutex = 0;
if (rw & WRITE)
- rw = WRITE_SYNC;
+ rw = WRITE_ODIRECT;
if (bdev)
bdev_blkbits = blksize_bits(bdev_hardsect_size(bdev));
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index b05b1d4d17d2..b900d2c67d29 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -145,20 +145,21 @@ struct bio {
* bit 2 -- barrier
* Insert a serialization point in the IO queue, forcing previously
* submitted IO to be completed before this one is issued.
- * bit 3 -- synchronous I/O hint: the block layer will unplug immediately
- * Note that this does NOT indicate that the IO itself is sync, just
- * that the block layer will not postpone issue of this IO by plugging.
- * bit 4 -- metadata request
+ * bit 3 -- synchronous I/O hint.
+ * bit 4 -- Unplug the device immediately after submitting this bio.
+ * bit 5 -- metadata request
* Used for tracing to differentiate metadata and data IO. May also
* get some preferential treatment in the IO scheduler
- * bit 5 -- discard sectors
+ * bit 6 -- discard sectors
* Informs the lower level device that this range of sectors is no longer
* used by the file system and may thus be freed by the device. Used
* for flash based storage.
- * bit 6 -- fail fast device errors
- * bit 7 -- fail fast transport errors
- * bit 8 -- fail fast driver errors
+ * bit 7 -- fail fast device errors
+ * bit 8 -- fail fast transport errors
+ * bit 9 -- fail fast driver errors
* Don't want driver retries for any fast fail whatever the reason.
+ * bit 10 -- Tell the IO scheduler not to wait for more requests after this
+ one has been submitted, even if it is a SYNC request.
*/
#define BIO_RW 0 /* Must match RW in req flags (blkdev.h) */
#define BIO_RW_AHEAD 1 /* Must match FAILFAST in req flags */
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ struct bio {
#define BIO_RW_FAILFAST_DEV 7
#define BIO_RW_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT 8
#define BIO_RW_FAILFAST_DRIVER 9
+#define BIO_RW_NOIDLE 10
#define bio_rw_flagged(bio, flag) ((bio)->bi_rw & (1 << (flag)))
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ struct bio {
#define bio_rw_ahead(bio) bio_rw_flagged(bio, BIO_RW_AHEAD)
#define bio_rw_meta(bio) bio_rw_flagged(bio, BIO_RW_META)
#define bio_discard(bio) bio_rw_flagged(bio, BIO_RW_DISCARD)
+#define bio_noidle(bio) bio_rw_flagged(bio, BIO_RW_NOIDLE)
/*
* upper 16 bits of bi_rw define the io priority of this bio
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 67dae3bd881c..e03660964e02 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
__REQ_COPY_USER, /* contains copies of user pages */
__REQ_INTEGRITY, /* integrity metadata has been remapped */
__REQ_UNPLUG, /* unplug queue on submission */
+ __REQ_NOIDLE, /* Don't anticipate more IO after this one */
__REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */
};
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
#define REQ_COPY_USER (1 << __REQ_COPY_USER)
#define REQ_INTEGRITY (1 << __REQ_INTEGRITY)
#define REQ_UNPLUG (1 << __REQ_UNPLUG)
+#define REQ_NOIDLE (1 << __REQ_NOIDLE)
#define BLK_MAX_CDB 16
@@ -633,6 +635,7 @@ static inline bool rq_is_sync(struct request *rq)
}
#define rq_is_meta(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_RW_META)
+#define rq_noidle(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_NOIDLE)
static inline int blk_queue_full(struct request_queue *q, int sync)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ea0510978f76..cae5720f431c 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -95,11 +95,12 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define SWRITE 3 /* for ll_rw_block() - wait for buffer lock */
#define READ_SYNC (READ | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
#define READ_META (READ | (1 << BIO_RW_META))
-#define WRITE_SYNC (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
-#define WRITE_SYNC_PLUG (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO))
-#define SWRITE_SYNC (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
+#define WRITE_SYNC_PLUG (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE))
+#define WRITE_SYNC (WRITE_SYNC_PLUG | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
+#define WRITE_ODIRECT (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
#define SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG \
- (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO))
+ (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE))
+#define SWRITE_SYNC (SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
#define WRITE_BARRIER (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))
#define DISCARD_NOBARRIER (1 << BIO_RW_DISCARD)
#define DISCARD_BARRIER ((1 << BIO_RW_DISCARD) | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))