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Jens Axboe
783660b2f6 elevator: don't sort reads between writes
Don't allow elv_dispatch_sort() to mix reads and writes together,
it's rarely a good idea.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-02-11 23:14:44 +01:00
Jens Axboe
cad9751642 elevator: abstract out the activate and deactivate functions
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-02-11 23:14:44 +01:00
Linas Vepstas
95543179f1 [PATCH] elevator: move clearing of unplug flag earlier
A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid
performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued.
The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion that
can occur when re-queueing requests after a SCSI device/host
reset.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/254

However, that fix added the flag near the bottom of a case
statement, where an earlier break (in an if statement) could
transport one out of the case, without setting the flag.
This patch sets the flag earlier in the case statement.

I re-discovered the deep recursion recently during testing;
I was told that it was a known problem, and the fix to it was
in the kernel I was testing. Indeed it was ... but it didn't
fix the bug. With the patch below, I no longer see the bug.

Signed-off by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 11:01:17 -08:00
Jens Axboe
bb4067e341 [PATCH] elevator: fixup typo in merge logic
The recent io scheduler allow_merge commit left the block layer with
no merging, oops. This patch fixes that up.

That means the CFQ change needs to be verified again, it might not fix
the original bug now.  But that's a seperate thing, I'll double check
that tomorrow.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21 22:01:04 -08:00
Jens Axboe
da77526502 [PATCH] cfq-iosched: don't allow sync merges across queues
Currently we allow any merge, even if the io originates from different
processes. This can cause really bad starvation and unfairness, if those
ios happen to be synchronous (reads or direct writes).

So add a allow_merge hook to the io scheduler ops, so an io scheduler can
help decide whether a bio/process combination may be merged with an
existing request.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-20 11:04:12 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bb37b94c68 [BLOCK] Cleanup unused variable passing
- ->init_queue() does not need the elevator passed in
- ->put_request() is a hot path and need not have the queue passed in
- cfq_update_io_seektime() does not need cfqd passed in

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:42:33 +01:00
Vasily Tarasov
c584164224 [PATCH] block layer: elv_iosched_show should get elv_list_lock
elv_iosched_show function iterates other elv_list, hence
elv_list_lock should be got.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12 15:08:51 +02:00
Vasily Tarasov
a22b169df1 [PATCH] block layer: elevator_find function cleanup
We can easily produce search through the elevator list
without introducing additional elevator_type variable.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12 15:08:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0fe2347957 [PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email address
As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail,
update the link to a neutral one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b5deef9012 [PATCH] Make sure all block/io scheduler setups are node aware
Some were kmalloc_node(), some were still kmalloc(). Change them all to
kmalloc_node().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cb78b285c8 [PATCH] Drop useless bio passing in may_queue/set_request API
It's not needed for anything, so kill the bio passing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:23 +02:00
Jens Axboe
c00895ab2f [PATCH] Remove ->waiting member from struct request
As the comments indicates in blkdev.h, we can fold it into ->end_io_data
usage as that is really what ->waiting is. Fixup the users of
blk_end_sync_rq().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:29:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe
2e662b65f0 [PATCH] elevator: abstract out the rbtree sort handling
The rbtree sort/lookup/reposition logic is mostly duplicated in
cfq/deadline/as, so move it to the elevator core. The io schedulers
still provide the actual rb root, as we don't want to impose any sort
of specific handling on the schedulers.

Introduce the helpers and rb_node in struct request to help migrate the
IO schedulers.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe
9817064b68 [PATCH] elevator: move the backmerging logic into the elevator core
Right now, every IO scheduler implements its own backmerging (except for
noop, which does no merging). That results in duplicated code for
essentially the same operation, which is never a good thing. This patch
moves the backmerging out of the io schedulers and into the elevator
core. We save 1.6kb of text and as a bonus get backmerging for noop as
well. Win-win!

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4aff5e2333 [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
2d8f613160 elv_unregister: fix possible crash on module unload
An exiting task or process which didn't do I/O yet have no io context,
elv_unregister() should check it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-22 12:52:23 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Dave Jones
acf4217555 [PATCH] remove dead code from elevator switching
We already drop the refcount in elevator_exit(), and as
we're setting 'e' to NULL, we'll never take that branch anyway.
Finally, as 'e' is a local var that isn't referenced afterwards,
setting it to NULL is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23 17:10:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
bc1c116974 [PATCH] elevator switching race
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the
next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be
invoked with bad or NULL data.

To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer.
Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be
run without the lock held.  This isn't easily fixable, without also
changing the mempool API.  So split the initialization into two parts,
and alloc-init operation and an attach operation.  Then we can
preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach
inside the lock after we detach the old one.

This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching
with a very busy io load.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:14:23 -07:00
Jens Axboe
dac07ec121 [BLOCK] limit request_fn recursion
Don't recurse back into the driver even if the unplug threshold is met,
when the driver asks for a requeue. This is both silly from a logical
point of view (requeues typically happen due to driver/hardware
shortage), and also dangerous since we could hit an endless request_fn
-> requeue -> unplug -> request_fn loop and crash on stack overrun.

Also limit blk_run_queue() to one level of recursion, similar to how
blk_start_queue() works.

This patch fixed a real problem with SLES10 and lpfc, and it could hit
any SCSI lld that returns non-zero from it's ->queuecommand() handler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-11 12:38:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
4f73247f0e [PATCH] block/elevator.c: remove unused exports
This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- elv_requeue_request
- elv_completed_request

They are only used by the block core, hence they need not be exported.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-20 15:45:22 +02:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9b41046cd0 [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[]
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).

And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().

	start_kernel()
		-> parse_args()
			-> unknown_bootoption()
				-> obsolete_checksetup()

If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
handled.

If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
a parameter is seted to argv_init[].

Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.

This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Eric Sesterhenn
ce52449742 BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:43:26 +01:00
Jens Axboe
2056a782f8 [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 20:00:26 +01:00
Al Viro
e572ec7e4e [PATCH] fix rmmod problems with elevator attributes, clean them up 2006-03-18 22:27:18 -05:00
Al Viro
3d1ab40f4c [PATCH] elevator_t lifetime rules and sysfs fixes 2006-03-18 18:35:43 -05:00
Al Viro
e17a9489b4 [PATCH] stop elv_unregister() from rogering other iosched's data, fix locking
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:34:12 -05:00
Tejun Heo
30e9656cc3 [PATCH] block: implement elv_insert and use it (fix ordcolor flipping bug)
q->ordcolor must only be flipped on initial queueing of a hardbarrier
request.

Constructing ordered sequence and requeueing used to pass through
__elv_add_request() which flips q->ordcolor when it sees a barrier
request.

This patch separates out elv_insert() from __elv_add_request() and uses
elv_insert() when constructing ordered sequence and requeueing.
elv_insert() inserts the given request at the specified position and
does nothing else.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-08 07:52:58 -08:00
Tejun Heo
238e7db935 [PATCH] block: request_queue->ordcolor must not be flipped on SOFTBARRIER
q->ordcolor must not be flipped on SOFTBARRIER.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Nate Diller
248d5ca5ed [BLOCK] elevator: allow default scheduler to potentially be modular
Jens has decided that allowing the default scheduler to be a module is
a bug, and should not be allowed under kconfig.  However, I find that
scenario useful for debugging, and wish for the kernel to be able to
handle this situation without OOPSing, if I enable such an option in
the .config directly.  This patch dynamically checks for the presence
of the compiled-in default, and falls back to no-op, emitting a
suitable error message, when the default is not available

Tested for a range of boot options on 2.6.16-rc1-mm2.

Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-24 10:09:14 +01:00
Nate Diller
5f00397644 [BLOCK] elevator: default choice selection
My previous default iosched patch did a poor job dealing with the
'elevator=' boot-time option.  The old behavior falls back to the
compiled-in default if the requested one is not registered at boot
time.  This patch dynamically evaluates which default
to use, and emits a suitable error message when the requested scheduler
is not available.  It also does the 'as' -> 'anticipatory' conversion
before elevator registration, which along with a modified registration
function, allows it to correctly indicate which default scheduler is
in use.

Tested for a range of boot options on 2.6.16-rc1-mm2.

Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-24 10:07:58 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b7bfcf7cbd [BLOCK] elevator: if specified scheduler is not found, fall back to default
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-16 09:48:58 +01:00
Chuck Ebbert
752a3b7963 [BLOCK] elevator: Make elevator=as work again for anticipatory
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-16 09:47:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo
1bc691d357 [PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing
If ordered tag isn't supported, request ordering for barrier
sequencing is performed by queue draining, which basically hangs the
request queue until elv_completed_request() reports completion of all
previous fs requests.

The condition check in elv_completed_request() was only performed for
fs requests.  If a special request is queued between the last
to-be-drained request and the barrier sequence, draining is never
completed and the queue is stalled forever.

This patch moves the end-of-draining condition check such that it's
performed for all requests.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:05:39 -08:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
769db45b73 make elv_try_merge() static, kill the dead declaration of
elv_try_last_merge().

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:44:15 +01:00
Tejun Heo
797e7dbbee [BLOCK] reimplement handling of barrier request
Reimplement handling of barrier requests.

* Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of
  target devices.
* Retry support for falling back.
* Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:51:03 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8ffdc6550c [BLOCK] add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()
add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error
to rq_end_io_fn().  there's no generic way to pass error code
to request completion function, making generic error handling
of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and
each driver uses it differently).  this patch adds @uptodate
to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn().

for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the
same uptodate argument used in the last call to
end_that_request_first() should suffice.  imho, this can also
help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on.

Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:49:03 +01:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
eb97b73d75 [BLOCK] new block/ directory comment tidy
Some leftover comments referring to drivers/block that are now block/.
They don't add any information we don't already have, so kill them.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-18 21:59:31 +01:00
Tejun Heo
3beb207712 [BLOCK] elevator: elv_latter/former_request update
With generic dispatch queue update, implicit former/latter request
handling using rq->queuelist.prev/next doesn't work as expected
anymore.  Also, the only iosched dependent on this feature was
noop-iosched and it has been reimplemented to have its own
latter/former methods.  This patch removes implicit former/latter
handling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:57:05 +01:00
Tejun Heo
be56123568 [BLOCK] fix string handling in elv_iosched_store
elv_iosched_store doesn't terminate string passed from userspace if
it's too long.  Also, if the written length is zero (probably not
possible), it accesses elevator_name[-1].  This patch fixes both bugs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:56:21 +01:00
Tejun Heo
15853af9f0 [BLOCK] Implement elv_drain_elevator for improved switch error detection
This patch adds request_queue->nr_sorted which keeps the number of
requests in the iosched and implement elv_drain_elevator which
performs forced dispatching.  elv_drain_elevator checks whether
iosched actually dispatches all requests it has and prints error
message if it doesn't.  As buggy forced dispatching can result in
wrong barrier operations, I think this extra check is worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:56:06 +01:00
Tejun Heo
407df2aa29 [BLOCK] elevator: run queue in elevator_switch
elevator_dispatch needs to run queue after forced dispatching;
otherwise, the queue might stall.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:55:37 +01:00
Zachary Amsden
cff3ba2204 [BLOCK] elevator init fixes #2
In addition to the first patch, which is probably goodness, I found the
cause of my panic - applying this patch fixes it and now I am booting.
If the chosen_elevator[] is not found, fall back to noop.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:55:05 +01:00
Zachary Amsden
b8ea2cb512 [BLOCK] elevator init fixes
I got a panic in the elevator code, backtrace :

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000060
..
EIP is at elevator_put+0x0/0x30 (null elevator_type passed)
..
elevator_init+0x38
blk_init_queu_node+0xc9
floppy_init+0xdb
do_initcalls+0x23
init+0x10a
init+0x0

Clearly if the kmalloc here fails, e->elevator_type is not yet set; this
appears to be the correct fix, but I think I probably hit the second case
due to a race condition.  Someone more familiar with the elevator code
should look at this more closely until I can determine if I can reproduce.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:54:48 +01:00
Jens Axboe
3a65dfe8c0 [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directory
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01:00
Renamed from drivers/block/elevator.c (Browse further)