In addition to the first patch, which is probably goodness, I found the
cause of my panic - applying this patch fixes it and now I am booting.
If the chosen_elevator[] is not found, fall back to noop.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

I got a panic in the elevator code, backtrace :

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000060
..
EIP is at elevator_put+0x0/0x30 (null elevator_type passed)
..
elevator_init+0x38
blk_init_queu_node+0xc9
floppy_init+0xdb
do_initcalls+0x23
init+0x10a
init+0x0

Clearly if the kmalloc here fails, e->elevator_type is not yet set; this
appears to be the correct fix, but I think I probably hit the second case
due to a race condition.  Someone more familiar with the elevator code
should look at this more closely until I can determine if I can reproduce.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

cfq's add_req_fn callback may invoke q->request_fn directly and
depending on low-level driver used and timing, a queued request may be
finished & deallocated before add_req_fn callback returns.  So,
__elv_add_request must not access rq after it's passed to add_req_fn
callback.

This patch moves rq_mergeable test above add_req_fn().  This may
result in q->last_merge pointing to REQ_NOMERGE request if add_req_fn
callback sets it but as RQ_NOMERGE is checked again when blk layer
actually tries to merge requests, this does not cause any problem.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply
leaves the queue alone, and returns.  However, it forgets to call
elevator_put, so

'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler'

will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently
pinned in memory.
Signed-off-by: NNate Diller <nate@namesys.com>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a kconfig submenu to select the default I/O scheduler, in case
anticipatory is not compiled in or another default is preferred.  Also,
since no-op is always available, we should use it whenever the selected
default is not.
Signed-off-by: NNate Diller <nate@namesys.com>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We're trying to get rid of as much as possible tasklist walks, or at
least moving them to core code.  This patch falls into the second
category.

Instead of walking the tasklist in cfq-iosched move that into
elv_unregister.  The added benefit is that with this change the as
ioscheduler might be might unloadable more easily aswell.

The new code uses read_lock instead of read_lock_irq because the
tasklist_lock only needs irq disabling for writers.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

- 100msec sleep is a little excessive, lots of requests can complete
  in that timeframe. Use 10msec instead.
- Rename QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS to QUEUE_FLAG_ELVSWITCH to indicate what
  is going on.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

 This patch reimplements elevator switch.  This patch assumes generic
dispatch queue patchset is applied.

 * Each request is tagged with REQ_ELVPRIV flag if it has its elevator
   private data set.
 * Requests which doesn't have REQ_ELVPRIV flag set never enter
   iosched.  They are always directly back inserted to dispatch queue.
   Of course, elevator_put_req_fn is called only for requests which
   have its REQ_ELVPRIV set.
 * Request queue maintains the current number of requests which have
   its elevator data set (elevator_set_req_fn called) in
   q->rq->elvpriv.
 * If a request queue has QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS set, elevator private data
   is not allocated for new requests.

 To switch to another iosched, we set QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS and wait until
elvpriv goes to zero; then, we attach the new iosched and clears
QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS.  New implementation is much simpler and main code
paths are less cluttered, IMHO.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

This patch kills max_back_kb handling from elv_dispatch_sort() and
kills max_back_kb field from struct request_queue.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Currently, both generic elevator code and specific ioscheds
participate in the management and usage of last_merge.  This
and the following patches move last_merge handling into
generic elevator code.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

- Split elv_dispatch_insert() into two functions
- Rename rq_last_sector() to rq_end_sector()
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Implements generic dispatch queue which can replace all
dispatch queues implemented by each iosched.  This reduces
code duplication, eases enforcing semantics over dispatch
queue, and simplifies specific ioscheds.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

This patch removes try_module_get race in elevator_find.
try_module_get should always be called with the spinlock protecting
what the module init/cleanup routines register/unregister to held. In
the case of elevators, we should be holding elv_list to avoid it going
away between spin_unlock_irq and try_module_get.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq
v3).  It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent
aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes.  It
supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set
directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls.  The latter closely mimic
set/getpriority.

This import is based on my latest from -mm.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

__elv_add_request().  rq.count[READ] + rq.count[WRITE] can increase
more than one if another thread has allocated a request after the
current request is allocated or in_flight could have changed resulting
in larger-than-one change of nrq, thus breaking the threshold
mechanism.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

nothing.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

This is the reworked version of the patch.  It sets REQ_SOFTBARRIER
in two places - in elv_next_request() on BLKPREP_DEFER and in
blk_requeue_request().
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!