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Jan Kara
d03f6cdc1f block: Dynamically allocate and refcount backing_dev_info
Instead of storing backing_dev_info inside struct request_queue,
allocate it dynamically, reference count it, and free it when the last
reference is dropped. Currently only request_queue holds the reference
but in the following patch we add other users referencing
backing_dev_info.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-02 08:20:50 -07:00
Jan Kara
dc3b17cc8b block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue
We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-02 08:20:48 -07:00
Jan Kara
f44f1ab5a2 block: Unhash block device inodes on gendisk destruction
Currently, block device inodes stay around after corresponding gendisk
hash died until memory reclaim finds them and frees them. Since we will
make block device inode pin the bdi, we want to free the block device
inode as soon as the device goes away so that bdi does not stay around
unnecessarily. Furthermore we need to avoid issues when new device with
the same major,minor pair gets created since reusing the bdi structure
would be rather difficult in this case.

Unhashing block device inode on gendisk destruction nicely deals with
these problems. Once last block device inode reference is dropped (which
may be directly in del_gendisk()), the inode gets evicted. Furthermore if
the major,minor pair gets reallocated, we are guaranteed to get new
block device inode even if old block device inode is not yet evicted and
thus we avoid issues with possible reuse of bdi.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-02 08:18:41 -07:00
Josef Bacik
b0d9111a2d nbd: use an idr to keep track of nbd devices
To prepare for dynamically adding new nbd devices to the system switch
from using an array for the nbd devices and instead use an idr.  This
copies what loop does for keeping track of its devices.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-01 16:28:08 -07:00
Josef Bacik
124d6db07c nbd: use our own workqueue for recv threads
Since we are in the memory reclaim path we need our recv work to be on a
workqueue that has WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set so we can avoid deadlocks.  Also
set WQ_HIGHPRI since we are in the completion path for IO.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-01 16:28:06 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
72f2f8f692 blk-mq-debug: Introduce debugfs_create_files()
Replace the two debugfs_create_file() loops by a call to the new
debugfs_create_files() function. Add an empty element at the end
of the two attribute arrays such that the array size does not have
to be passed to debugfs_create_files().

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-01 12:23:00 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
8c0f14eab8 blk-mq-debug: Make show() operations interruptible
Allow users to interrupt show operations instead of making a user
space process unkillable if ownership of q->sysfs_lock cannot be
obtained.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-01 12:22:59 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
a1ae0f74a7 blk-mq-debug: Avoid that sparse complains about req_flags_t usage
Avoid that sparse reports the following complaints:

block/elevator.c:541:29: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
block/elevator.c:541:29:    expected bool [unsigned] [usertype] next_sorted
block/elevator.c:541:29:    got restricted req_flags_t

block/blk-mq-debugfs.c:92:54: warning: cast from restricted req_flags_t

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-01 12:22:23 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
f3bcb0e606 blk-mq-debugfs: Add missing __acquires() / __releases() annotations
This patch avoids that sparse complains about lock imbalances.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-01 12:20:55 -07:00
Jens Axboe
d486f1f204 block: move internal_tag to same cache line as tag
Since we removed cmd_type, we now have a hole in the struct. Move
the internal_tag member to the same cacheline as tag, since we
use them at the same time.

This doesn't fix the hole, just moves it elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:50 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
aebf526b53 block: fold cmd_type into the REQ_OP_ space
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations.  The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.

Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:44 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
2f5a8e80f7 ide: don't abuse cmd_type
Currently the legacy ide driver defines several request types of it's own,
which is in the way of removing that field entirely.

Instead add a type field to struct ide_request and use that to distinguish
the different types of IDE-internal requests.

It's a bit of a mess, but so is the surrounding code..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:39 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
57292b58dd block: introduce blk_rq_is_passthrough
This can be used to check for fs vs non-fs requests and basically
removes all knowledge of BLOCK_PC specific from the block layer,
as well as preparing for removing the cmd_type field in struct request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:34 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
09fc54ccc4 nbd: move request validity checking into nbd_send_cmd
This is where we do the rest of the request handling, which will
become much simpler soon, too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:29 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
27410a8927 nbd: remove REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV leftovers
Disconnects don't use block layer requests these days, so all handling
of private requests is dead code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:25 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
55460a8a7e mspro_block: remove pointless prep_fn
This driver will never see non-fs requests, and doesn't do anything
else in the prep_fn.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:20 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
cf22f802fc ms_block: remove pointless prep_fn
This driver will never see non-fs requests, and doesn't do anything
else in the prep_fn.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:15 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
261c83c1a9 mmc: remove pointless request type check in mmc_prep_request
The block layer won't send requests the driver isn't asking for,
so remove this check.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:10 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
68b568c797 ѕd: remove pointless REQ_TYPE_FS check
->done can only be called for fs requests, so no need to check again here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 14:00:04 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
1dd128a1ff scm_blk: remove unneeded REQ_TYPE_FS check
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 13:59:59 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
97b50a654d virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable
The SCSI passthrough idea was a a bad idea to start with (guess who came
up with it?), and has been removed from the virtio 1.O spec, and is not
enabled by defauly by any host I know of.  Add a separate config option
for it so that we don't need to enable it for most setups.  That way
any bugs related to it (like the one recently fixed for vmapped stacks)
do not affect other users, and the size of the virtblk_req structure
also shrinks significantly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 10:53:10 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
85dada09ee virtio_blk: remove struct request backpointer from virtblk_req
We can simply use blk_mq_rq_from_pdu to get back at the request at
I/O completion time.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 10:53:08 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
72148aecf4 block: make scsi_request and scsi ioctl support optional
We only need this code to support scsi, ide, cciss and virtio.  And at
least for virtio it's a deprecated feature to start with.

This should shrink the kernel size for embedded device that only use,
say eMMC a bit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 10:53:05 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
3719fa8622 skd: implement trivial scsi ioctls directly
This way there is no need to drag in a dependency on the
BLOCK_PC code, which is going to become optional.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31 10:53:03 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
1a7347c7db nvme/scsi: don't rely on BLK_MAX_CDB
The NVMe SCSI emulation doesn't use BLOCK_PC requests, so BLK_MAX_CDB
doesn't have a meaning for it.  Instead opencode the value of 16
and refactor the code a bit so that related checks are next to each
other and we only need to use the value in one place.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-30 08:33:51 -07:00
Jens Axboe
f605208e01 nvme: fix compilation of scsi component
Since we moved the cdb parts and define out of the block proper,
we need to include scsi/scsi_request.h for the nvme scsi layer.

Fixes: 82ed4db499 ("block: split scsi_request out of struct request")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-29 20:04:49 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
fb045ca25c block: don't assign cmd_flags in __blk_rq_prep_clone
These days we have the proper flags set since request allocation time.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
82ed4db499 block: split scsi_request out of struct request
And require all drivers that want to support BLOCK_PC to allocate it
as the first thing of their private data.  To support this the legacy
IDE and BSG code is switched to set cmd_size on their queues to let
the block layer allocate the additional space.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
8ae94eb65b block/bsg: move queue creation into bsg_setup_queue
Simply the boilerplate code needed for bsg nodes a bit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
e9c787e65c scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request
Rely on the new block layer functionality to allocate additional driver
specific data behind struct request instead of implementing it in SCSI
itѕelf.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
d48777a633 scsi: remove __scsi_alloc_queue
Instead do an internal export of __scsi_init_queue for the transport
classes that export BSG nodes.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
eeff68c561 scsi: remove scsi_cmd_dma_pool
There is no need for GFP_DMA allocations of the scsi_cmnd structures
themselves, all that might be DMAed to or from is the actual payload,
or the sense buffers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
0a6ac4ee7c scsi: respect unchecked_isa_dma for blk-mq
Currently blk-mq always allocates the sense buffer using normal GFP_KERNEL
allocation.  Refactor the cmd pool code to split the cmd and sense allocation
and share the code to allocate the sense buffers as well as the sense buffer
slab caches between the legacy and blk-mq path.

Note that this switches to lazy allocation of the sense slab caches - the
slab caches (not the actual allocations) won't be destroy until the scsi
module is unloaded instead of keeping track of hosts using them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
0fbc3e0ff6 scsi: remove gfp_flags member in scsi_host_cmd_pool
When using the slab allocator we already decide at cache creation time if
an allocation comes from a GFP_DMA pool using the SLAB_CACHE_DMA flag,
and there is no point passing the kmalloc-family only GFP_DMA flag to
kmem_cache_alloc.  Drop all the infrastructure for doing so.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Hannes Reinecke
80e1836cf9 scsi_dh_hp_sw: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() instead of using the block interface
directly.  This will set REQ_QUIET and REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as
we're evaluating the errors anyway and should be able to send the command
even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Hannes Reinecke
b78205c932 scsi_dh_emc: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() and scsi_get_vpd_page() instead of
open-coding it.  Using scsi_execute_req_flags() will set REQ_QUIET and
REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as we're evaluating the errors anyway and
should be able to send the command even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Hannes Reinecke
3278255741 scsi_dh_rdac: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() and scsi_get_vpd_page() instead of
open-coding it.  Using scsi_execute_req_flags() will set REQ_QUIET and
REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as we're evaluating the errors anyway and
should be able to send the command even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
eb8db831be dm: always defer request allocation to the owner of the request_queue
DM already calls blk_mq_alloc_request on the request_queue of the
underlying device if it is a blk-mq device.  But now that we allow drivers
to allocate additional data and initialize it ahead of time we need to do
the same for all drivers.   Doing so and using the new cmd_size
infrastructure in the block layer greatly simplifies the dm-rq and mpath
code, and should also make arbitrary combinations of SQ and MQ devices
with SQ or MQ device mapper tables easily possible as a further step.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
4bf58435fa dm: remove incomplete BLOCK_PC support
DM tries to copy a few fields around for BLOCK_PC requests, but given
that no dm-target ever wires up scsi_cmd_ioctl BLOCK_PC can't actually
be sent to dm.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
48b77ad608 block: cleanup tracing
A couple tweaks to the tracing code:

 - trace the request size for all requests
 - trace request sector and nr_sectors only for fs requests, enforced by
   helpers
 - drop SCSI CDB tracing - we have SCSI tracing for this and are going
   to me the CDB out of the generic struct request soon.

With this the tracing code stops to know about BLOCK_PC requests entirely,
it's just FS vs passthrough requests now, where the latter includes any
driver-private requests.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
6d247d7f71 block: allow specifying size for extra command data
This mirrors the blk-mq capabilities to allocate extra drivers-specific
data behind struct request by setting a cmd_size field, as well as having
a constructor / destructor for it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
5ea708d15a block: simplify blk_init_allocated_queue
Return an errno value instead of the passed in queue so that the callers
don't have to keep track of two queues, and move the assignment of the
request_fn and lock to the caller as passing them as argument doesn't
simplify anything.  While we're at it also remove two pointless NULL
assignments, given that the request structure is zeroed on allocation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
e6f7f93d58 block: fix elevator init check
We can't initalize the elevator fields for flushes as flush share space
in struct request with the elevator data.  But currently we can't
communicate that a request is a flush through blk_get_request as we
can only pass READ or WRITE, and the low-level code looks at the
possible NULL bio to check for a flush.

Fix this by allowing to pass any block op and flags, and by checking for
the flush flags in __get_request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
309bd96af9 md: cleanup bio op / flags handling in raid1_write_request
No need for the local variables, the bio is still live and we can just
assign the bits we want directly.  Make me wonder why we can't assign
all the bio flags to start with.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:35 -07:00
Jens Axboe
f924ba70c1 Merge branch 'for-4.11/block' into for-4.11/rq-refactor
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:08:31 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
400f73b23f blk-mq: fix debugfs compilation issues
This fixes a couple of problems:

1. In the !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS case, the stub definitions were bogus.
2. In the !CONFIG_BLOCK case, blk-mq-debugfs.c shouldn't be compiled at
   all.

Fix the stub definitions and add a CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS Kconfig option.

Fixes: 07e4fead45 ("blk-mq: create debugfs directory tree")
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>

Augment Kconfig description.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 15:03:01 -07:00
Jens Axboe
f3a8ab7d55 block: cleanup remaining manual checks for PREFLUSH|FUA
Use op_is_flush() where applicable.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 09:08:23 -07:00
Jens Axboe
bd6737f1ae blk-mq-sched: add flush insertion into blk_mq_sched_insert_request()
Instead of letting the caller check this and handle the details
of inserting a flush request, put the logic in the scheduler
insertion function. This fixes direct flush insertion outside
of the usual make_request_fn calls, like from dm via
blk_insert_cloned_request().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 09:03:14 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
f73f44eb00 block: add a op_is_flush helper
This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush
state machine.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-27 09:01:45 -07:00
Jens Axboe
c13660a08c blk-mq-sched: change ->dispatch_requests() to ->dispatch_request()
When we invoke dispatch_requests(), the scheduler empties everything
into the passed in list. This isn't always a good thing, since it
means that we remove items that we could have potentially merged
with.

Change the function to dispatch single requests at the time. If
we do that, we can backoff exactly at the point where the device
can't consume more IO, and leave the rest with the scheduler for
better merging and future dispatch decision making.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Tested-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
2017-01-27 08:20:35 -07:00