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authorAlan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>2008-04-29 14:44:19 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-04-29 14:48:55 +0200
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block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However, if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in nature, the cycles are wasted. This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles. Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 7253fa05db0a..ac5310ef8270 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -488,6 +488,9 @@ int elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, struct bio *bio)
}
}
+ if (blk_queue_nomerges(q))
+ return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE;
+
/*
* See if our hash lookup can find a potential backmerge.
*/