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Jens Axboe
5972511b77 [BLOCK] Don't pin lots of memory in mempools
Currently we scale the mempool sizes depending on memory installed
in the machine, except for the bio pool itself which sits at a fixed
256 entry pre-allocation.

There's really no point in "optimizing" this OOM path, we just need
enough preallocated to make progress. A single unit is enough, lets
scale it down to 2 just to be on the safe side.

This patch saves ~150kb of pinned kernel memory on a 32-bit box.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-04-30 09:08:17 +02:00
Chen, Kenneth W
e61c90188b [PATCH] optimize o_direct on block devices
Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through
generic direct_io_worker for block device.

direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on
file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection,
extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases.  The end result is
that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O.

For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple
loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in
order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to
the block layer.  This significantly speeds up O_D on block device.

[akpm@osdl.org: small speedup]
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:50 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
David Howells
4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Mike Christie
0e75f9063f [PATCH] block: support larger block pc requests
This patch modifies blk_rq_map/unmap_user() and the cdrom and scsi_ioctl.c
users so that it supports requests larger than bio by chaining them together.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:40:55 +01:00
Mike Christie
ad2d722570 [PATCH] block: kill length alignment test in bio_map_user()
The target mode support is mapping in bios using bio_map_user. The
current targets do not need their len to be aligned with a queue limit
so this check is causing some problems. Note: pointers passed into the
kernel are properly aligned by usersapace tgt code so the uaddr check
in bio_map_user is ok.

The major user, blk_bio_map_user checks for the len before mapping
so it is not affected by this patch.

And the semi-newly added user blk_rq_map_user_iov has been failing
out when the len is not aligned properly so maybe people have been
good and not sending misaligned lens or that path is not used very
often and this change will not be very dangerous. st and sg do not
check the length and we have not seen any problem reports from those
wider used paths so this patch should be fairly safe - for mm
and wider testing at least.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:40:20 +01:00
David Howells
65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
Andreas Mohr
bf02c082bf [PATCH] fs/bio.c: tweaks
- Calculate a variable in bvec_alloc_bs() only once needed, not earlier
  (bio.o down from 18408 to 18376 Bytes, 32 Bytes saved, probably due to
  data locality improvements).

- Init variable idx to silence a gcc warning which already existed in the
  unmodified original base file (bvec_alloc_bs() handles idx correctly, so
  there's no need for the warning):

	fs/bio.c: In function `bio_alloc_bioset':
	fs/bio.c:169: warning: `idx' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:25 -07:00
Jens Axboe
0fe2347957 [PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email address
As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail,
update the link to a neutral one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:34 +02:00
Milan Broz
50be345560 [PATCH] fix creating zero sized bio mempools in low memory system
In the very low memory systems is in the init_bio call
scale parameter set to zero and it leads to creating
zero sized mempool.

This patch prevents pool_entries parameter become zero,
so the created pool have at least 1 entry.

Mempool with 0 entries lead to incorrect behaviour
of mempool_free. (Alloc requests are not waken up
and system stalls in mempool_alloc->ioschedule).

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe
991721572e [PATCH] Fix missing ret assignment in __bio_map_user() error path
If get_user_pages() returns less pages than what we asked for, we jump
to out_unmap which will return ERR_PTR(ret).  But ret can contain a
positive number just smaller than local_nr_pages, so be sure to set it
to -EFAULT always.

Problem found and diagnosed by Damien Le Moal <damien@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-17 10:52:12 -07:00
NeilBrown
a2eb0c101d [PATCH] md: Make sure bi_max_vecs is set properly in bio_split
Else a subsequent bio_clone might make a mess.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Don Dupuis" <dondster@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-23 10:35:31 -07:00
Matthew Dobson
93d2341c75 [PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:00 -08:00
Matthew Dobson
0eaae62aba [PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:59 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
fa3536cc14 [PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:56 -08:00
Oliver Neukum
11b0b5abb2 [PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs code
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:00 -08:00
Jens Axboe
2056a782f8 [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 20:00:26 +01:00
Benjamin LaHaise
b0e6e96299 [PATCH] reduce size of bio mempools
The biovec default mempool limit of 256 entries results in over 3MB of RAM
being permanently pinned, even on systems with only 128MB of RAM.  Since
mempool tries to allocate from the system pool first, it makes sense to
reduce the size of the mempool fallbacks to a more reasonable limit of 1-5
entries -- enough for the system to be able to make progress even under
load.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:18 -08:00
Jens Axboe
fddfdeafa8 [BLOCK] A few kerneldoc fixups
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-31 15:24:34 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Jens Axboe
0ea60b5ad8 [BLOCK] bio: init ->bi_bdev in bio_init()
For SG_IO requests, bio->bi_bdev may not be explicitly initialized. So make
bio_init() clear the field to make sure it's always NULL or valid.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:45:10 +01:00
Jens Axboe
80cfd548ee [BLOCK] bio: check for same page merge possibilities in __bio_add_page()
For filesystems with a blocksize < page size, we can merge same page
calls into the bio_vec at the end of the bio. This saves segments
on systems with a page size > the "normal" 4kb fs block size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:43:28 +01:00
Mike Christie
defd94b754 [SCSI] seperate max_sectors from max_hw_sectors
- export __blk_put_request and blk_execute_rq_nowait
needed for async REQ_BLOCK_PC requests
- seperate max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for block/scsi_ioctl.c and
SG_IO bio.c helpers per Jens's last comments. Since block/scsi_ioctl.c SG_IO was
already testing against max_sectors and SCSI-ml was setting max_sectors and
max_hw_sectors to the same value this does not change any scsi SG_IO behavior. It only
prepares ll_rw_blk.c, scsi_ioctl.c and bio.c for when SCSI-ml begins to set
a valid max_hw_sectors for all LLDs. Today if a LLD does not set it
SCSI-ml sets it to a safe default and some LLDs set it to a artificial low
value to overcome memory and feedback issues.

Note: Since we now cap max_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS, which is 1024,
drivers that used to call blk_queue_max_sectors with a large value of
max_sectors will now see the fs requests capped to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-12-15 15:11:40 -08:00
Mike Christie
6e68af666f [SCSI] Convert SCSI mid-layer to scsi_execute_async
Add scsi helpers to create really-large-requests and convert
scsi-ml to scsi_execute_async().

Per Jens's previous comments, I placed this function in scsi_lib.c.
I made it follow all the queue's limits - I think I did at least :), so
I removed the warning on the function header.

I think the scsi_execute_* functions should eventually take a request_queue
and be placed some place where the dm-multipath hw_handler can use them
if that failover code is going to stay in the kernel. That conversion
patch will be sent in another mail though.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-12-14 19:03:35 -08:00
Al Viro
27496a8c67 [PATCH] gfp_t: fs/*
- ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated
 - missing gfp_t in fs/* added
 - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks:
   XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator.
   The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a
   different type for those but for now let's leave them alone.  That,
   BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had
   been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with
   no way to catch misuses.  Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that
   immediately...

One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is
a mix of gfp_t and error indications.  Left alone for now.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
3f70353ea9 [PATCH] bogus cast in bio.c
<qualifier> void * is not the same as void <qualifier> *...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 10:31:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0481990b75 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 2005-09-07 17:31:27 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
3676347a5e [PATCH] kill bio->bi_set
Jens:

->bi_set is totally unnecessary bloat of struct bio.  Just define a proper
destructor for the bio and it already knows what bio_set it belongs too.

Peter:

Fixed the bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:20 -07:00
James Bottomley
31151ba2ce fix mismerge in ll_rw_blk.c 2005-08-28 10:43:07 -05:00
Andrew Morton
e525e153c7 [PATCH] __bio_clone() dead comment
Remove a very wrong comment.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:38 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a5453be48e [PATCH] bio_clone fix
Fix bug introduced in 2.6.11-rc2: when we clone a BIO we need to copy over the
current index into it as well.

It corrupts data with some MD setups.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4946

Huuuuuuuuge thanks to Matthew Stapleton <matthew4196@gmail.com> for doggedly
chasing this one down.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 08:38:59 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
6c036527a6 [PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
James Bottomley
f1970baf6d [PATCH] Add scatter-gather support for the block layer SG_IO
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-06-20 14:06:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b823825e8e [PATCH] Keep the bio end_io parts inside of bio.c for blk_rq_map_kern()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-06-20 14:05:27 +02:00
Mike Christie
df46b9a44c [PATCH] Add blk_rq_map_kern()
Add blk_rq_map_kern which takes a kernel buffer and maps it into
a request and bio. This can be used by the dm hw_handlers, old
sg_scsi_ioctl, and one day scsi special requests so all requests
comming into scsi will have bios. All requests having bios
should allow scsi to use scatter lists for all IO and allow it
to use block layer functions.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-06-20 14:04:44 +02:00
Martin Waitz
67be2dd1ba [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions
Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00