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authorAlan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100
commit488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c (patch)
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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>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index ffb13ad35716..f71f5c58620c 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ struct request_queue
#define QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT 15 /* do IO stats */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_CQ 16 /* hardware does queuing */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD 17 /* supports DISCARD */
+#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES 18 /* No extended merges */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER) | \
@@ -589,6 +590,8 @@ enum {
#define blk_queue_queuing(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_CQ, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_stopped(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nomerges(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
+#define blk_queue_noxmerges(q) \
+ test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nonrot(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_io_stat(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_flushing(q) ((q)->ordseq)