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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Williams 5757a6d76c block: strict rq_affinity
Some systems benefit from completions always being steered to the strict
requester cpu rather than the looser "per-socket" steering that
blk_cpu_to_group() attempts by default. This is because the first
CPU in the group mask ends up being completely overloaded with work,
while the others (including the original submitter) has power left
to spare.

Allow the strict mode to be set by writing '2' to the sysfs control
file. This is identical to the scheme used for the nomerges file,
where '2' is a more aggressive setting than just being turned on.

echo 2 > /sys/block/<bdev>/queue/rq_affinity

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23 20:44:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6e2756376c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework
the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
Roel Kluin 3c18ce71af block: make blk_softirq_init() static
Sparse asked whether these could be static.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe 581d4e28d9 block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeouts
Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to
sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout
handling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:17 +02:00
Jens Axboe 242f9dcb8b block: unify request timeout handling
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling.
Move those bits to the block layer.

Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever
and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to
tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot
less timer fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe c7c22e4d5c block: add support for IO CPU affinity
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of
either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export
a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions
of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper
(bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask
for completion on that specific CPU.

In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much
as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired.

This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only
work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp
helper infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00
Jens Axboe b646fc59b3 block: split softirq handling into blk-softirq.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00