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