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block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O

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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>
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Alan D. Brunelle
2010-01-29 09:04:08 +01:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent 47483e2520
commit 488991e28e
5 changed files with 39 additions and 10 deletions
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@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ struct request_queue
#define QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT 15 /* do IO stats */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_CQ 16 /* hardware does queuing */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD 17 /* supports DISCARD */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES 18 /* No extended merges */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER) | \
@ -589,6 +590,8 @@ enum {
#define blk_queue_queuing(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_CQ, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_stopped(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nomerges(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_noxmerges(q) \
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nonrot(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_io_stat(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_flushing(q) ((q)->ordseq)