1. 07 5月, 2011 2 次提交
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      block: hold queue if flush is running for non-queueable flush drive · 3ac0cc45
      shaohua.li@intel.com 提交于
      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 53d63e6b:
      
          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: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      3ac0cc45
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      block: add a non-queueable flush flag · f3876930
      shaohua.li@intel.com 提交于
      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: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      f3876930
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