From 166e1f901b01872e8b70733a3f2e2c6980389cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:08:27 +0200 Subject: block: export __make_request Avoid the hacks need for request based device mappers currently by simply exporting the symbol instead of trying to get it through the back door. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 0e67c45b3bc9..e9c3d9b07630 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -675,6 +675,8 @@ extern int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, extern int sg_scsi_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, struct scsi_ioctl_command __user *); +extern int __make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); + /* * A queue has just exitted congestion. Note this in the global counter of * congested queues, and wake up anyone who was waiting for requests to be -- cgit v1.2.3 From c20e8de27fef9f59869c81c288ad6cf28200e00c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:03:37 +0200 Subject: block: rename __make_request() to blk_queue_bio() Now that it's exported, lets put it in a more sane namespace. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index e9c3d9b07630..085f95414c7f 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ extern int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, extern int sg_scsi_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, struct scsi_ioctl_command __user *); -extern int __make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); +extern int blk_queue_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); /* * A queue has just exitted congestion. Note this in the global counter of -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5a7bbad27a410350e64a2d7f5ec18fc73836c14f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:12:01 +0200 Subject: block: remove support for bio remapping from ->make_request There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in __generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in generic_make_request handle it. Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and returned non-zero values for errors. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 085f95414c7f..c712efdafc3f 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ struct request_pm_state #include typedef void (request_fn_proc) (struct request_queue *q); -typedef int (make_request_fn) (struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); +typedef void (make_request_fn) (struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); typedef int (prep_rq_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *); typedef void (unprep_rq_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *); @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ extern int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, extern int sg_scsi_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, struct scsi_ioctl_command __user *); -extern int blk_queue_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); +extern void blk_queue_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); /* * A queue has just exitted congestion. Note this in the global counter of -- cgit v1.2.3 From 75df713627f28f88b901b329c8857747545fd4ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Jayaraman Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:16 +0200 Subject: block: document blk-plug Thus spake Andrew Morton: "And I have the usual maintainability whine. If someone comes up to vmscan.c and sees it calling blk_start_plug(), how are they supposed to work out why that call is there? They go look at the blk_start_plug() definition and it is undocumented. I think we can do better than this?" Adapted from the LWN article - http://lwn.net/Articles/438256/ by Jens Axboe and from an earlier attempt by Shaohua Li to document blk-plug. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: grammatical and spelling tweaks] Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index c712efdafc3f..1978655faa3b 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -860,17 +860,23 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t, int); extern void blk_put_queue(struct request_queue *); /* - * Note: Code in between changing the blk_plug list/cb_list or element of such - * lists is preemptable, but such code can't do sleep (or be very careful), - * otherwise data is corrupted. For details, please check schedule() where - * blk_schedule_flush_plug() is called. + * blk_plug permits building a queue of related requests by holding the I/O + * fragments for a short period. This allows merging of sequential requests + * into single larger request. As the requests are moved from a per-task list to + * the device's request_queue in a batch, this results in improved scalability + * as the lock contention for request_queue lock is reduced. + * + * It is ok not to disable preemption when adding the request to the plug list + * or when attempting a merge, because blk_schedule_flush_list() will only flush + * the plug list when the task sleeps by itself. For details, please see + * schedule() where blk_schedule_flush_plug() is called. */ struct blk_plug { - unsigned long magic; - struct list_head list; - struct list_head cb_list; - unsigned int should_sort; - unsigned int count; + unsigned long magic; /* detect uninitialized use-cases */ + struct list_head list; /* requests */ + struct list_head cb_list; /* md requires an unplug callback */ + unsigned int should_sort; /* list to be sorted before flushing? */ + unsigned int count; /* number of queued requests */ }; #define BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT 16 -- cgit v1.2.3 From bc9fcbf9cb8ec76d340da16fbf48a9a316e14c52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:31:18 +0200 Subject: block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h blk_throtl interface is block internal and there's no reason to have them in linux/blkdev.h. Move them to block/blk.h. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 0b68044e7abb..5267cd2f20dc 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1197,20 +1197,6 @@ static inline uint64_t rq_io_start_time_ns(struct request *req) } #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING -extern int blk_throtl_init(struct request_queue *q); -extern void blk_throtl_exit(struct request_queue *q); -extern int blk_throtl_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio **bio); -#else /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING */ -static inline int blk_throtl_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio **bio) -{ - return 0; -} - -static inline int blk_throtl_init(struct request_queue *q) { return 0; } -static inline int blk_throtl_exit(struct request_queue *q) { return 0; } -#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING */ - #define MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV(major,minor) \ MODULE_ALIAS("block-major-" __stringify(major) "-" __stringify(minor)) #define MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(major) \ -- cgit v1.2.3