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14 Commits (3ee68c4af3fd7228c1be63254b9f884614f9ebb2)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds e2688f00dc Merge branch 'blk-softirq' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
Manual merge for trivial #include changes
2006-01-09 09:26:40 -08:00
Jens Axboe ff856bad67 [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: Enable out-of-order request completions through softirq
Request completion can be a quite heavy process, since it needs to
iterate through the entire request and complete the bio's it holds.
This patch adds blk_complete_request() which moves this processing
into a dedicated block softirq.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:02:34 +01:00
Jens Axboe 356cebea11 [BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()
It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 15:30:20 +01:00
Nicolas Kaiser 1abee6d2d1 [BLOCK][TRIVIAL] ll_rw_blk: header included twice
linux/blkdev.h included twice

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:44:15 +01:00
Tejun Heo 797e7dbbee [BLOCK] reimplement handling of barrier request
Reimplement handling of barrier requests.

* Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of
  target devices.
* Retry support for falling back.
* Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:51:03 +01:00
Tejun Heo 52d9e67536 [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: separate out bio init part from __make_request
Separate out bio initialization part from __make_request.  It
will be used by the following blk_ordered_reimpl.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:49:58 +01:00
Tejun Heo 8ffdc6550c [BLOCK] add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()
add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error
to rq_end_io_fn().  there's no generic way to pass error code
to request completion function, making generic error handling
of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and
each driver uses it differently).  this patch adds @uptodate
to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn().

for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the
same uptodate argument used in the last call to
end_that_request_first() should suffice.  imho, this can also
help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on.

Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:49:03 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 64100099ed [BLOCK] mark some block/ variables cons
the patch below marks various read-only variables in block/* as const,
so that gcc can optimize the use of them; eg gcc will replace the use by
the value directly now and will even remove the memory usage of these.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:46:02 +01:00
Jens Axboe 88ee5ef157 [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: fastpath get_request()
Originally from: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

Move current_io_context out of the get_request fastpth.  Also try to
streamline a few other things in this area.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:39:04 +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 6e39b69e7e [SCSI] export blk layer functions needed for blk_execute_rq_nowait
To send async requests we need these two functions exported.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-12-14 19:00:50 -08:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt eb97b73d75 [BLOCK] new block/ directory comment tidy
Some leftover comments referring to drivers/block that are now block/.
They don't add any information we don't already have, so kill them.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-18 21:59:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 333c47c847 Merge branch 'block-dir' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2005-11-07 08:32:39 -08:00
Jens Axboe 3a65dfe8c0 [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directory
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01:00