linux-toradex.git/block/blk-merge.c, branch v3.10.70

scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end

2013-03-20T05:13:04+00:00

This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple
times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every
time in hot paths.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

block: Implement support for WRITE SAME

2012-09-20T12:31:45+00:00

The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.

This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges

2012-09-20T12:31:41+00:00

 - blk_check_merge_flags() verifies that cmd_flags / bi_rw are
   compatible. This function is called for both req-req and req-bio
   merging.

 - blk_rq_get_max_sectors() and blk_queue_get_max_sectors() can be used
   to query the maximum sector count for a given request or queue. The
   calls will return the right value from the queue limits given the
   type of command (RW, discard, write same, etc.)

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Clean up special command handling logic

2012-09-20T12:31:38+00:00

Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge
flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and
bio_mergeable() have been modified to use them.

bio_is_rw() is used in place of bio_has_data() a few places. This is
done to to distinguish true reads and writes from other fs type requests
that carry a payload (e.g. write same).

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper

2012-08-02T21:42:04+00:00

Add a helper to map a bio to a scatterlist, modelled after
blk_rq_map_sg.

This helper is useful for any driver that wants to create
a scatterlist from its ->make_request_fn method.

Changes in v2:
 - Use __blk_segment_map_sg to avoid duplicated code
 - Add cocbook style function comment

Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Asias He 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Introduce __blk_segment_map_sg() helper

2012-08-02T21:42:03+00:00

Split the mapping code in blk_rq_map_sg() to a helper
__blk_segment_map_sg(), so that other mapping function, e.g.
blk_bio_map_sg(), can share the code.

Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Suggested-by: Jens Axboe 
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Asias He 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions

2012-02-08T08:19:38+00:00

blk_rq_merge_ok() is the elevator-neutral part of merge eligibility
test.  blk_try_merge() determines merge direction and expects the
caller to have tested elv_rq_merge_ok() previously.

elv_rq_merge_ok() now wraps blk_rq_merge_ok() and then calls
elv_iosched_allow_merge().  elv_try_merge() is removed and the two
callers are updated to call elv_rq_merge_ok() explicitly followed by
blk_try_merge().  While at it, make rq_merge_ok() functions return
bool.

This is to prepare for plug merge update and doesn't introduce any
behavior change.

This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush

2011-03-21T09:14:27+00:00

One of the disadvantages of on-stack plugging is that we potentially
lose out on merging since all pending IO isn't always visible to
everybody. When we flush the on-stack plugs, right now we don't do
any checks to see if potential merge candidates could be utilized.

Correct this by adding a new insert variant, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE.
It works just ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT, but first checks whether we can
merge with an existing request before doing the insertion (if we fail
merging).

This fixes a regression with multiple processes issuing IO that
can be merged.

Thanks to Shaohua Li  for testing and fixing
an accounting bug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-01-13T18:45:01+00:00

* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
  blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
  block: trace event block fix unassigned field
  block: add internal hd part table references
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  kref: add kref_test_and_get
  bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
  block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
  Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
  block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
  Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
  fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
  block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
  cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
  fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
  cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
  sd: implement sd_check_events()
  sr: implement sr_check_events()
  ...

block: add internal hd part table references

2011-01-07T07:43:37+00:00

We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.

This reverts commit e4a683c8.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe