android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/block
Jens Axboe dbaf2c003e block: optimize generic_unplug_device()
Original patch from Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

Mike Anderson was doing an OLTP benchmark on a computer with 48 physical
disks mapped to one logical device via device mapper.

He found that there was a slowdown on request_queue->lock in function
generic_unplug_device. The slowdown is caused by the fact that when some
code calls unplug on the device mapper, device mapper calls unplug on all
physical disks. These unplug calls take the lock, find that the queue is
already unplugged, release the lock and exit.

With the below patch, performance of the benchmark was increased by 18%
(the whole OLTP application, not just block layer microbenchmarks).

So I'm submitting this patch for upstream. I think the patch is correct,
because when more threads call simultaneously plug and unplug, it is
unspecified, if the queue is or isn't plugged (so the patch can't make
this worse). And the caller that plugged the queue should unplug it
anyway. (if it doesn't, there's 3ms timeout).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:48:17 +02:00
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as-iosched.c block: kill swap_io_context() 2008-02-01 11:34:49 +01:00
blk-barrier.c block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
blk-core.c block: optimize generic_unplug_device() 2008-05-07 09:48:17 +02:00
blk-exec.c block: make core bits checkpatch compliant 2008-02-01 09:26:33 +01:00
blk-ioc.c cfq-iosched: fix RCU race in the cfq io_context destructor handling 2008-05-07 09:28:57 +02:00
blk-map.c block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kern 2008-04-29 09:50:34 +02:00
blk-merge.c block: get rid of likely/unlikely predictions in merge logic 2008-05-07 09:33:55 +02:00
blk-settings.c block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
blk-sysfs.c block: sysfs store function needs to grab queue_lock and use queue_flag_*() 2008-05-07 09:09:39 +02:00
blk-tag.c block: adjust tagging function queue bit locking 2008-05-07 09:27:43 +02:00
blk.h block: rename and export rq_init() 2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
blktrace.c blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices 2008-01-28 10:04:46 +01:00
bsg.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2008-05-02 13:52:35 -07:00
cfq-iosched.c cfq-iosched: fix RCU race in the cfq io_context destructor handling 2008-05-07 09:28:57 +02:00
compat_ioctl.c ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls (take 3) 2008-04-18 00:46:24 +02:00
deadline-iosched.c block: let elv_register() return void 2007-12-18 08:29:28 +01:00
elevator.c block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
genhd.c mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move common block ioctls to compat_blkdev_ioctl 2007-10-10 09:26:00 +02:00
Kconfig Kconfig: clean up block/Kconfig help descriptions 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +02:00
Kconfig.iosched update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS. 2007-02-17 20:08:22 +01:00
Makefile block: ll_rw_blk.c split, add blk-merge.c 2008-01-29 21:55:12 +01:00
noop-iosched.c block: let elv_register() return void 2007-12-18 08:29:28 +01:00
scsi_ioctl.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2008-05-02 13:52:35 -07:00