block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush

One of the disadvantages of on-stack plugging is that we potentially
lose out on merging since all pending IO isn't always visible to
everybody. When we flush the on-stack plugs, right now we don't do
any checks to see if potential merge candidates could be utilized.

Correct this by adding a new insert variant, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE.
It works just ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT, but first checks whether we can
merge with an existing request before doing the insertion (if we fail
merging).

This fixes a regression with multiple processes issuing IO that
can be merged.

Thanks to Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> for testing and fixing
an accounting bug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Jens Axboe
2011-03-21 10:14:27 +01:00
parent 4345caba34
commit 5e84ea3a9c
5 changed files with 59 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ extern struct request *elv_rb_find(struct rb_root *, sector_t);
#define ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT 3
#define ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE 4
#define ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH 5
#define ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE 6
/*
* return values from elevator_may_queue_fn