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| author | shaohua.li@intel.com <shaohua.li@intel.com> | 2011-05-06 11:34:41 -0600 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2011-05-06 11:36:25 -0600 |
| commit | 3ac0cc4508709d42ec9aa351086c7d38bfc0660c (patch) | |
| tree | 933d5ab6ff9b0763f36e614962abb5bdcc4a348a /include/linux/blkdev.h | |
| parent | f3876930952390a31c3a7fd68dd621464a36eb80 (diff) | |
block: hold queue if flush is running for non-queueable flush drive
In some drives, flush requests are non-queueable. When flush request is
running, normal read/write requests can't run. If block layer dispatches
such request, driver can't handle it and requeue it. Tejun suggested we
can hold the queue when flush is running. This can avoid unnecessary
requeue. Also this can improve performance. For example, we have
request flush1, write1, flush 2. flush1 is dispatched, then queue is
hold, write1 isn't inserted to queue. After flush1 is finished, flush2
will be dispatched. Since disk cache is already clean, flush2 will be
finished very soon, so looks like flush2 is folded to flush1.
In my test, the queue holding completely solves a regression introduced by
commit 53d63e6b0dfb95882ec0219ba6bbd50cde423794:
block: make the flush insertion use the tail of the dispatch list
It's not a preempt type request, in fact we have to insert it
behind requests that do specify INSERT_FRONT.
which causes about 20% regression running a sysbench fileio
workload.
Stable: 2.6.39 only
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 8bd2a271b2d8..9f921bf4bf8c 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ struct request_queue */ unsigned int flush_flags; unsigned int flush_not_queueable:1; + unsigned int flush_queue_delayed:1; unsigned int flush_pending_idx:1; unsigned int flush_running_idx:1; unsigned long flush_pending_since; |