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Jens Axboe
0a7ae2ff0d block: change the tag sync vs async restriction logic
Make them fully share the tag space, but disallow async requests using
the last any two slots.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-20 08:54:31 +02:00
Tejun Heo
9934c8c045 block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch
Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:52:18 +02:00
Qinghuang Feng
c6a06f707c block/blk-tag.c: cleanup kernel-doc
There is no argument named @tags in blk_init_tags,
remove its' comment.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Jens Axboe
e3ba9ae58a block: reserve some tags just for sync IO
By only allowing async IO to consume 3/4 ths of the tag depth, we
always have slots free to serve sync IO. This is important to avoid
having writes fill the entire tag queue, thus starving reads.

Original patch and idea from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:19 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
710027a48e Add some block/ source files to the kernel-api docbook. Fix kernel-doc notation in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Matthew Wilcox
0e3eb45e4f block: remove unused ->busy part of the block queue tag map
It's not used for anything. On top of that, it's racy and can thus
trigger a faulty BUG_ON() in __blk_free_tags() on queue exit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-08-27 09:50:19 +02:00
Jens Axboe
aa94b5371f block: adjust tagging function queue bit locking
For most initialization purposes, calling blk_queue_init_tags() without
the queue lock held is OK. Only if called for resizing an existing map
must the lock be held. Ditto for tag cleanup, the maps are reference
counted.

So switch the general queue flag setting to the unlocked variant, but
retain the locked variant for resizing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:27:43 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
24c03d47d0 block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.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>
2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
Nick Piggin
75ad23bc0f block: make queue flags non-atomic
We can save some atomic ops in the IO path, if we clearly define
the rules of how to modify the queue flags.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:33 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
278caf0120 block/blk-tag.c should #include "blk.h"
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its
global functions (in this case for __blk_queue_free_tags()).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04 11:28:24 +01:00
Jens Axboe
6728cb0e63 block: make core bits checkpatch compliant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-01 09:26:33 +01:00
Jens Axboe
8324aa91d1 block: split tag and sysfs handling from blk-core.c
Seperates the tag and sysfs handling from ll_rw_blk.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:07 +01:00