From aeb6fafb8fa53266d70ca7474fcda2bdaf96524a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:48:07 +0200 Subject: block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IO By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those. Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this flag. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 67dae3bd881c..e03660964e02 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { __REQ_COPY_USER, /* contains copies of user pages */ __REQ_INTEGRITY, /* integrity metadata has been remapped */ __REQ_UNPLUG, /* unplug queue on submission */ + __REQ_NOIDLE, /* Don't anticipate more IO after this one */ __REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */ }; @@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { #define REQ_COPY_USER (1 << __REQ_COPY_USER) #define REQ_INTEGRITY (1 << __REQ_INTEGRITY) #define REQ_UNPLUG (1 << __REQ_UNPLUG) +#define REQ_NOIDLE (1 << __REQ_NOIDLE) #define BLK_MAX_CDB 16 @@ -633,6 +635,7 @@ static inline bool rq_is_sync(struct request *rq) } #define rq_is_meta(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_RW_META) +#define rq_noidle(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_NOIDLE) static inline int blk_queue_full(struct request_queue *q, int sync) { -- cgit v1.2.3