Fix the mismerge of the W: URL and the S: status fields.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Which had an embedded and duplicated email address
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move to alphabetic position
Use single line F: entries
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Quote a name with a period
remove L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The missing probe handler hook will never probe the driver. Add it back.
Fixes broken MMC on OMAP.
We use platform_driver_probe() API since omap_hsmmc is not a hot-pluggable
device.
Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <ext-roger.quadros@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
strstrip() can return a modified value of its input argument, when
removing elading whitesapce. So it is surely bug for this function's
return value to be ignored. The caller is probably going to use the
incorrect original pointer.
So mark it __must_check to prevent this frm happening (as it has before).
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit 8aa7e847d (Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write
confusion) replace WRITE with BLK_RW_ASYNC. Unfortunately, concurrent mm
development made the unchanged place accidentally.
This patch fixes it too.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 02b51df1b0 (proc connector: add
event for process becoming session leader) we have the following warning:
Badness at kernel/softirq.c:143
[...]
Krnl PSW : 0404c00180000000 00000000001481d4 (local_bh_enable+0xb0/0xe0)
[...]
Call Trace:
([<000000013fe04100>] 0x13fe04100)
[<000000000048a946>] sk_filter+0x9a/0xd0
[<000000000049d938>] netlink_broadcast+0x2c0/0x53c
[<00000000003ba9ae>] cn_netlink_send+0x272/0x2b0
[<00000000003baef0>] proc_sid_connector+0xc4/0xd4
[<0000000000142604>] __set_special_pids+0x58/0x90
[<0000000000159938>] sys_setsid+0xb4/0xd8
[<00000000001187fe>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16
[<00000041616cb266>] 0x41616cb266
The warning is
---> WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled());
The network code must not be called with disabled interrupts but
sys_setsid holds the tasklist_lock with spinlock_irq while calling the
connector.
After a discussion we agreed that we can move proc_sid_connector from
__set_special_pids to sys_setsid.
We also agreed that it is sufficient to change the check from
task_session(curr) != pid into err > 0, since if we don't change the
session, this means we were already the leader and return -EPERM.
One last thing:
There is also daemonize(), and some people might want to get a
notification in that case. Since daemonize() is only needed if a user
space does kernel_thread this does not look important (and there seems
to be no consensus if this connector should be called in daemonize). If
we really want this, we can add proc_sid_connector to daemonize() in an
additional patch (Scott?)
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Given such a long name, the kB count in /proc/meminfo's HardwareCorrupted
line is being shown too far right (it does align with x86_64's VmallocChunk
above, but I hope nobody will ever have that much corrupted!). Align it.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Memory failure on a KSM page currently oopses on its NULL anon_vma in
page_lock_anon_vma(): that may not be much worse than the consequence of
ignoring it, but it is better to be consistent with how ZERO_PAGE and
hugetlb pages and other awkward cases are treated. Just skip it.
We could fix it for 2.6.32 at the KSM end, by putting a dummy anon_vma
pointer in there; but that would get harder next time, when KSM will put a
pointer to something else there (and I'm not currently planning to do any
work to open that up to memory_failure). So I would prefer this simple
PageKsm test, until the other exceptions are handled.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is disabled, cpufreq_get() needs a stub. Used by kvm
(although it looks like a bit of the kvm code could be omitted when
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is disabled).
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `kvm_arch_init':
(.text+0x10de7): undefined reference to `cpufreq_get'
(Needed in linux-next's KVM tree, but it's correct in 2.6.32).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sigp sense only returns the status of a cpu if it is non zero. If the
status of the sensed cpu is all zeros condition code 0 (accpeted) is
set and no status bits are returned.
The current code however assumes that a status was returned and tests
bits in it. This means uninitalized data is accessed with random
results.
Worst case is that the code that checks if cpu is offline on cpu
hotplug assumes that the target cpu is offline while it is still
running. This leads potentially to memory corruption since resources
that are still needed by the target cpu will be freed and could be
resused while still in use.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
According to the architecture a cpu must not necessarily enter stopped
state after completion of a sigp instruction with "stop" order code.
So remove the BUG() statement after self sending sigp stop to avoid
that it ever gets reached.
Also add a sigp busy check to make sure that the order gets delivered.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
After copying uts->nodename to the static nodename array the static
version isn't necessarily zero termininated, since the size of the
array is one byte too short.
Afterwards doing strncat(data, nodename, strlen(nodename)); may copy
an arbitrary large amount of bytes.
Fix this by getting rid of the static array and using strncat with
proper length limit.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fix missing unregister_sysctl_table in case the SCLP doesn't provide
the requested feature. Also simplify the whole error handling while
at it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Offlined cpus still have valid prefix register contents. Dumpers
will store the register contents of a cpu to the location where its
prefix register points to.
For offlined cpus the area (lowcore) has been freed and the dumper
would write the uninteresting contents of the offline cpu to a memory
location which might be in use by some other component and destroy
valueable information.
To fix this set the prefix register of offline cpus to absolute
address zero again. This prevents the current dumpers to write to
random memory locations.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If a suspended z/VM guest has been logged off before the resume the
'SET SMSG IUCV' CP command need to be repeated to reenable sending
message via SMSG. This fixes the following error:
HCPMFS057I H4214002 not receiving; SMSG off
Error: non-zero CP response for command 'SMSG H4214002 CMM SHRINK 5010': #57
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fix the size of the local buffer and use snprintf to prevent
further miscalculations. Also fix the usage of bitwise vs logic
operations.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Currently there is no barrier support in the block device code. That
means we cannot guarantee any sort of data integerity when using the
block device node with dis kwrite caches enabled. Using the raw block
device node is a typical use case for virtualization (and I assume
databases, too). This patch changes block_fsync to issue a cache flush
and thus make fsync on block device nodes actually useful.
Note that in mainline we would also need to add such code to the
->aio_write method for O_SYNC handling, but assuming that Jan's patch
series for the O_SYNC rewrite goes in it will also call into ->fsync
for 2.6.32.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
There's nothing block related about them, the backing device
is used by things like NFS etc as well. This gets rid of the
need to protect such calls by CONFIG_BLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When the bdi is being removed, we have to ensure that no super_blocks
currently have that cached in sb->s_bdi. Normally this is ensured by
the sb having a longer life span than the bdi, but if the device is
suddenly yanked, we have to kill this reference. sb->s_bdi is pointed
to freed memory at that point.
This fixes a problem with sync(1) hanging when a USB stick is pulled
without cleanly umounting it first.
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently PACKET_TX_RING forces certain amount of every frame to remain
unused. This probably originates from an early version of the
PACKET_TX_RING patch that in fact used the extra space when the (since
removed) CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP_ZERO_COPY option was enabled. The current
code does not make any use of this extra space.
This patch removes the extra space reservation and lets userspace make
use of the full frame size.
Signed-off-by: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CMD646 corrupts data on concurrent transfers on both channels when IDE SSD is
connected to one of the channels.
Setup that demonstrates this hardware bug: Ultra 5, onboard CMD646, rev 3.
/dev/hda is 8GB Seagate ST38410A in MWDMA2
/dev/hdd is 32GB SSD SiliconHardDisk in MWDMA2
- When reading /dev/hdd (for example with dd or fsck), reads from /dev/hda
are corrupted, there are twiddled single bits 1->0 and some full 32-bit
words corrupted, sometimes commands fail (which switches /dev/hda to
PIO mode but the corruptions happen even in PIO).
- Reads from /dev/hdd don't seem to be corrupted (i.e. fsck passes fine).
- When I connected normal rotating harddisk to /dev/hdd, there was no
corruption, so the corruption is something specific to SSD.
- I tried the same setup on a PCI card with CMD649 and saw no corruption.
This patch serializes the operation for CMD646 and 643 (I didn't test
CMD643 but it may have the same hw bug too because it's earlier design).
CMD649 is good. I don't know anything about CMD 648.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
I found that the current version of drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c can be used to
successfully drive a low-power, low-cost network adapter with USB ID
0a46:9000, based on a DM9000E chipset. As no device with this ID is yet
present in the kernel, I have created a patch that adds support for the device
to the dm9601 driver.
Created and tested against linux-2.6.32-rc5.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@tis.icnet.pl>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The mailbox command process would only process a maximum of 5 unrelated
firmware events while waiting for it's command completion status.
It should process an unlimited number of events while waiting for a maximum of 5 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Clean up driver resources without touch the hardware. Add pci
save/restore state.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Augment raw_send_hdrinc to correct for incorrect ip header length values
A series of oopses was reported to me recently. Apparently when using AF_RAW
sockets to send data to peers that were reachable via ipsec encapsulation,
people could panic or BUG halt their systems.
I've tracked the problem down to user space sending an invalid ip header over an
AF_RAW socket with IP_HDRINCL set to 1.
Basically what happens is that userspace sends down an ip frame that includes
only the header (no data), but sets the ip header ihl value to a large number,
one that is larger than the total amount of data passed to the sendmsg call. In
raw_send_hdrincl, we allocate an skb based on the size of the data in the msghdr
that was passed in, but assume the data is all valid. Later during ipsec
encapsulation, xfrm4_tranport_output moves the entire frame back in the skbuff
to provide headroom for the ipsec headers. During this operation, the
skb->transport_header is repointed to a spot computed by
skb->network_header + the ip header length (ihl). Since so little data was
passed in relative to the value of ihl provided by the raw socket, we point
transport header to an unknown location, resulting in various crashes.
This fix for this is pretty straightforward, simply validate the value of of
iph->ihl when sending over a raw socket. If (iph->ihl*4U) > user data buffer
size, drop the frame and return -EINVAL. I just confirmed this fixes the
reported crashes.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In mii monitor mode, bond_check_dev_link() calls the the ioctl
handler of slave devices. It stores the ndo_do_ioctl function
pointer to a static (!) ioctl variable and later uses it to call the
handler with the IOCTL macro.
If another thread executes bond_check_dev_link() at the same time
(even with a different bond, which none of the locks prevent), a
race condition occurs. If the two racing slaves have different
drivers, this may result in one driver's ioctl handler being
called with a pointer to a net_device controlled with a different
driver, resulting in unpredictable breakage.
Unless I am overlooking something, the "static" must be a
copy'n'paste error (?).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each
array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters
for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is
an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
e180a6b775 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.
Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all:
1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.
The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
On SMP guests, reads from the ring might bypass used index reads. This
causes guest crashes because host writes to used index to signal ring
data readiness. Fix this by inserting rmb before used ring reads.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Commit f68d24082e
in 2.6.32-rc1 broke requesting IRQs for per-VQ MSI-X vectors:
- vector number was used instead of the vector itself
- we try to request an IRQ for VQ which does not
have a callback handler
This is a regression that causes warnings in kernel log,
potentially lower performance as we need to scan vq list,
and might cause system failure if the interrupt
requested is in fact needed by another system.
This was not noticed earlier because in most cases
we were falling back on shared interrupt for all vqs.
The warnings often look like this:
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 1
current handler: i8042
Pid: 2400, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W
2.6.32-rc3-11952-gf3ed8d8-dirty #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81072aed>] ? __setup_irq+0x299/0x304
[<ffffffff81072ff3>] ? request_threaded_irq+0x144/0x1c1
[<ffffffff813455af>] ? vring_interrupt+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff81346598>] ? vp_try_to_find_vqs+0x583/0x5c7
[<ffffffffa0015188>] ? skb_recv_done+0x0/0x34 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff81346609>] ? vp_find_vqs+0x2d/0x83
[<ffffffff81345d00>] ? vp_get+0x3c/0x4e
[<ffffffffa0016373>] ? virtnet_probe+0x2f1/0x428 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffffa0015188>] ? skb_recv_done+0x0/0x34 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffffa00150d8>] ? skb_xmit_done+0x0/0x39 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff8110ab92>] ? sysfs_do_create_link+0xcb/0x116
[<ffffffff81345cc2>] ? vp_get_status+0x14/0x16
[<ffffffff81345464>] ? virtio_dev_probe+0xa9/0xc8
[<ffffffff8122b11c>] ? driver_probe_device+0x8d/0x128
[<ffffffff8122b206>] ? __driver_attach+0x4f/0x6f
[<ffffffff8122b1b7>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x6f
[<ffffffff8122a9f9>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x43/0x74
[<ffffffff8122a374>] ? bus_add_driver+0xea/0x22d
[<ffffffff8122b4a3>] ? driver_register+0xa7/0x111
[<ffffffffa001a000>] ? init+0x0/0xc [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff81009051>] ? do_one_initcall+0x50/0x148
[<ffffffff8106e117>] ? sys_init_module+0xc5/0x21a
[<ffffffff8100af02>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
pcpu_alloc() and pcpu_extend_area_map() perform a series of
spin_lock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq() calls, which make them unsafe
with respect to being called from contexts which have IRQs off.
This patch converts the code to perform save/restore of flags instead,
making pcpu_alloc() (or __alloc_percpu() respectively) to be called
from early kernel startup stage, where IRQs are off.
This is needed for proper initialization of per-cpu rq_weight data from
sched_init().
tj: added comment explaining why irqsave/restore is used in alloc path.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
virtio net used to unlink skbs from send queues on error,
but ever since 48925e372f
we do not do this. This causes guest data corruption and crashes
with vhost since net core can requeue the skb or free it without
it being taken off the list.
This patch fixes this by queueing the skb after successful
transmit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Page buffers containing packets with an incorrect checksum or using a
protocol not handled by hardware checksum offload were previously not
passed to LRO. The conversion to GRO changed this, but did not set
the ip_summed value accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The BNX2_L2CTX_STATUSB_NUM definition needs to be changed to match
the recent firmware update:
commit 078b073588
bnx2: Update firmware to 5.0.0.j3.
Without the fix, bnx2 can crash intermittently in bnx2_rx_int() when
iSCSI is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Hi,
Some workloads issue batches of small I/O, and the performance is poor
due to the call to blk_run_address_space for every single iocb. Nathan
Roberts pointed this out, and suggested that by deferring this call
until all I/Os in the iocb array are submitted to the block layer, we
can realize some impressive performance gains (up to 30% for sequential
4k reads in batches of 16).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Hi,
The WRITE_ODIRECT flag is only used in one place, and that code path
happens to also call blk_run_address_space. The introduction of this
flag, then, could result in the device being unplugged twice for every
I/O.
Further, with the batching changes in the next patch, we don't want an
O_DIRECT write to imply a queue unplug.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Currently no-idle queues in cfq are not serviced fairly:
even if they can only dispatch a small number of requests at a time,
they have to compete with idling queues to be serviced, experiencing
large latencies.
We should notice, instead, that no-idle queues are the ones that would
benefit most from having low latency, in fact they are any of:
* processes with large think times (e.g. interactive ones like file
managers)
* seeky (e.g. programs faulting in their code at startup)
* or marked as no-idle from upper levels, to improve latencies of those
requests.
This patch improves the fairness and latency for those queues, by:
* separating sync idle, sync no-idle and async queues in separate
service_trees, for each priority
* service all no-idle queues together
* and idling when the last no-idle queue has been serviced, to
anticipate for more no-idle work
* the timeslices allotted for idle and no-idle service_trees are
computed proportionally to the number of processes in each set.
Servicing all no-idle queues together should have a performance boost
for NCQ-capable drives, without compromising fairness.
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
cfq can disable idling for queues in various circumstances.
When workloads of different priorities are competing, if the higher
priority queue has idling disabled, lower priority queues may steal
its disk share. For example, in a scenario with an RT process
performing seeky reads vs a BE process performing sequential reads,
on an NCQ enabled hardware, with low_latency unset,
the RT process will dispatch only the few pending requests every full
slice of service for the BE process.
The patch solves this issue by always performing idle on the last
queue at a given priority class > idle. If the same process, or one
that can pre-empt it (so at the same priority or higher), submits a
new request within the idle window, the lower priority queue won't
dispatch, saving the disk bandwidth for higher priority ones.
Note: this doesn't touch the non_rotational + NCQ case (no hardware
to test if this is a benefit in that case).
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
