On my system, pkt_open() consumes 584 bytes because the compiler decides to
inline lots of functions that would not normally be part of long call chains.
The following patch fixes that problem on my system.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch removes the #define READ_AHEAD 1024 from the driver and uses the
block layer defaults, instead. We have found that under certain workloads
the setting can cause a disk connected to the e200 controller to go offline.
If the disk hiccups the link may try to downshift but the controller is
never notified that the link successfully completed the renegotiation.
We've also found that performance using the block layer default of 32 pages
was on par with the 1024 setting. We tried setting it to zero at one time
based on info from our firmware guys but that killed performance. Turns out
we were talking about 2 different read ahead settings.
Please consider this for inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

volumes

This patch allows us to display information about all of the logical volumes
configured on a particular controller without stepping on memory even when
there are many volumes (128 or more) configured.
Please consider this for inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

NBD doesn't work well with CFQ (or AS) schedulers, so let's default to
something else.

The two problems I have experienced with nbd and cfq are:

1) nbd hangs with cfq on RHEL 5 (2.6.18) -- this may well have been
   fixed

   There's a similar debian bug that has been filed as well:

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447638

   There have been posts to nbd-general mailing list about problems with
   cfq and nbd also.

2) nbd performs about 10% better (the last time I tested) with deadline
   vs.  cfq (the overhead of cfq doesn't provide much advantage to nbd [not
   being a real disk], and you end up going through the I/O scheduler on
   the nbd server anyway, so it makes sense that deadline is better with
   nbd)

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The below implements the getgeo hook for Xen block devices. Extracted
from the xen-unstable tree where it has been used for ages.

It is useful to have because it allows things like grub2 (used by the
Debian installer images) to work in a guest domain without having to
sprinkle Xen specific hacks around the place.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The current pmac32_defconfig fails to build with the following error:

  Building modules, stage 2.
ERROR: "check_media_bay" [drivers/block/swim3.ko] undefined!
WARNING: modpost: Found 23 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: "Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
  Enhanced partition statistics: remove old partition statistics
  Enhanced partition statistics: procfs
  Enhanced partition statistics: sysfs
  Enhanced partition statistics: aoe fix
  Enhanced partition statistics: update partition statitics
  Enhanced partition statistics: core statistics
  block: fixup rq_init() a bit

Manually fixed conflict in drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c due to statistics
support.

Remove the arbitrary 128 device limit for NBD.  nbds_max can now be set to
any number.  In certain scenarios where devices are used sparsely we have
run into the 128 device limit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I guess aoedev_init() can go away now.

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>