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| author | Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> | 2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100 |
| commit | 488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c (patch) | |
| tree | fea5e0aca42e338137cc050e66aaeb5f539e3d21 /block/elevator.c | |
| parent | 47483e25205f1f8d79784f0f7c733941bc080ec0 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/elevator.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/elevator.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c index 9ad5ccc4c5ee..ee3a883840f2 100644 --- a/block/elevator.c +++ b/block/elevator.c @@ -474,6 +474,15 @@ int elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, struct bio *bio) int ret; /* + * Levels of merges: + * nomerges: No merges at all attempted + * noxmerges: Only simple one-hit cache try + * merges: All merge tries attempted + */ + if (blk_queue_nomerges(q)) + return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE; + + /* * First try one-hit cache. */ if (q->last_merge) { @@ -484,7 +493,7 @@ int elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, struct bio *bio) } } - if (blk_queue_nomerges(q)) + if (blk_queue_noxmerges(q)) return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE; /* |