From aeb6fafb8fa53266d70ca7474fcda2bdaf96524a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:48:07 +0200 Subject: block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IO By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those. Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this flag. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- block/blk-core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'block/blk-core.c') diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index c4198f083e5b..25572802dac2 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1128,6 +1128,8 @@ void init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio) req->cmd_flags |= REQ_UNPLUG; if (bio_rw_meta(bio)) req->cmd_flags |= REQ_RW_META; + if (bio_noidle(bio)) + req->cmd_flags |= REQ_NOIDLE; req->errors = 0; req->hard_sector = req->sector = bio->bi_sector; -- cgit v1.2.3