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2005-09-10[PATCH] drivers/block: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_{un,}interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] janitor: block/xd: replace schedule_timeout() with ↵Nishanth Aravamudan
msleep()/msleep_interruptible() Use msleep() or msleep_interruptible() [as appropriate] instead of schedule_timeout() to gurantee the task delays as expected. As a result changed the units of the timeout variable from jiffies to msecs. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] janitor: block/umem: replace PRINTK with pr_debugDomen Puncer
Removed unused dprintk, replaced PRINTK with pr_debug. Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] vfree and kfree cleanup in drivers/Jesper Juhl
This patch does a full cleanup of 'NULL checks before vfree', and a partial cleanup of calls to kfree for all of drivers/ - the kfree bit is partial in that I only did the files that also had vfree calls in them. The patch also gets rid of some redundant (void *) casts of pointers being passed to [vk]free, and a some tiny whitespace corrections also crept in. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMERIngo Molnar
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been been in the -RT tree for some time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] deadline: clean up question mark operatorAndrew Morton
That ?: trick gives us the creeps. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-08[PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernelAlan Stern
29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA: This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't been used for anything other than printing warning messages." An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the time. As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches. Proprietary operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so quickly." Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial" subdirectory. "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked. "They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not supposed to. That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag is removed." Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our calls. His only comment was "Applied, thanks." Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08[PATCH] USB: ub 4: Zaitcev's quasi-S/GPete Zaitcev
Back out Axboe-style quasi-S/G and replace it with one command and repeated URBs. This is similar to what usb-storage does, only instead of a few URBs allocated together, one URB is reused. Jens's idea was very nice, but it collapsed when I had to support packet commads for CD burning. I cannot issue two or more packet commands where application expected only one. However, burning does not work completely yet. The cdrecord starts, recognizes the device, then aborts without writing a TOC. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08[PATCH] USB: ub 3/3: death to ub_bd_rq_fn_1Pete Zaitcev
When Al Viro saw the ub.c, he observed that it was a proof positive of Linus not reading patches anymore: names like fo_ob_ar_ba_2 used to cause serious fireworks. In my defence, any good scheme can be pushed to the realm of absurd if pushed far enough. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08[PATCH] USB: ub 2/3: Fold one linePete Zaitcev
Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08[PATCH] USB: ub 1/3: Axboe's quasi-S/GPete Zaitcev
This the quasi-S/G patch for ub as suggested by Jens Axboe at OLS and implemented that night before 4 a.m. Surprisingly, it worked right away... Alas, I had to skip some OLS partying, but it was for the good cause. Now the speed of ub is quite acceptable even on partitions with small block size. The ub does not really support S/G. Instead, it just tells the block layer that it does. Then, most of the time, the block layer merges requests and passes single-segmnent requests down to ub; everything works as before. Very rarely ub gets an unmerged S/G request. In such case, it issues several commands to the device. I added a small array of counters to monitor the merging (sg_stat). This may be dropped later. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-07Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC to arch/*/Kconfig. While we are at it, fixed several obvious cases when BLK_DEV_FD should have been excluded (architectures lacking asm/floppy.h are *not* going to have floppy.c compile, let alone work). If you can come up with better name for that ("this architecture might have working PC-compatible floppy disk controller"), you are more than welcome - just s/ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC/your_prefered_name/g in the patch below... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] drivers: convert kcalloc to kzallocPekka Enberg
This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] block: CFQ refcounting fixBrian King
I ran across a memory leak related to the cfq scheduler. The cfq init function increments the refcnt of the associated request_queue. This refcount gets decremented in cfq's exit function. Since blk_cleanup_queue only calls the elevator exit function when its refcnt goes to zero, the request_q never gets cleaned up. It didn't look like other io schedulers were incrementing this refcnt, so I removed the refcnt increment and it fixed the memory leak for me. To reproduce the problem, simply use cfq and use the scsi_host scan sysfs attribute to scan "- - -" repeatedly on a scsi host and watch the memory vanish. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] blk: Use blk_queue_xxx functions to set parametersStuart McLaren
Per-queue parameters should be updated using the appropriate blk_queue_xxx functions. Signed-off-by: Stuart McLaren <stuart.mclaren@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Add missing overflow check in get_blkdev_listNeil Horman
Patch to clean up missing overflow check in get_blkdev_list. The printf which adds the "Block Devices" string in /proc/devices can overflow the presented page if get_chrdev_list eats up the entire 4k space. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests()Nikita Danilov
cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests(): - replace drq selection with hopefully clearer while semantically the same construct: take write request, if there is any, otherwise take read one, or NULL if none exist. - kill unused other_dir. Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-06Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds
2005-09-05[PATCH] Floppy: add cmos attribute to floppy driver tidyAndrew Morton
Fiddle with coding style a bit. Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-05[PATCH] Floppy: Add cmos attribute to floppy driverHannes Reinecke
Currently only a device 'fdX' shows up in sysfs; the other possible device for this drive (like fd0h1440 etc) must be guessed from there. This patch corrects the floppy driver to create a platform device for each floppy found; each platform device also has an attribute 'cmos' which represents the cmos type for this drive. From this attribute the other possible device types can be computed. From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-05Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-05[PATCH] mips: clean up 32/64-bit configurationRalf Baechle
Start cleaning 32-bit vs. 64-bit configuration. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-01[CRYPTO]: Use CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP where appropriateHerbert Xu
This patch goes through the current users of the crypto layer and sets CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP at crypto_alloc_tfm() where all crypto operations are performed in process context. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29Merge HEAD from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/ppc64-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30[PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devicesStephen Rothwell
Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-08-29[NET]: Kill skb->real_devDavid S. Miller
Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond() decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original device into packet_type->func() as an argument. It remains to be seen whether we can use this same exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-28fix mismerge in ll_rw_blk.cJames Bottomley
2005-08-24[PATCH] cfq-iosched.c: minor fixesJens Axboe
One critical fix and two minor fixes for 2.6.13-rc7: - Max depth must currently be 2 to allow barriers to function on SCSI - Prefer sync request over async in choosing the next request - Never allow async request to preempt or disturb the "anticipation" for a single cfq process context. This is as-designed, the code right now is buggy in that area. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-10kconfig: move initramfs options to General SetupSam Ravnborg
Move initramfs options from Device Drivers | Block Drivers to General Setup This is a more natural place for this option. Furthermore separate out intramfs options to usr/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-08-05[PATCH] blk: fix tag shrinking (revive real_max_size)Tejun Heo
My patch in commit fa72b903f75e4f0f0b2c2feed093005167da4023 incorrectly removed blk_queue_tag->real_max_depth. The original resize implementation was incorrect in the following points. * actual allocation size of tag_index was shorter than real_max_size, but assumed to be of the same size, possibly causing memory access beyond the allocated area. * bits in tag_map between max_deptn and real_max_depth were initialized to 1's, making the tags permanently reserved. In an attempt to fix above two bugs, I had removed allocation optimization in init_tag_map and real_max_size. Tag map/index were allocated and freed immediately during resize. Unfortunately, I wasn't considering that tag map/index can be resized dynamically with tags beyond new_depth active. This led to accessing freed area after shrinking tags and led to the following bug reporting thread on linux-scsi. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112319898111885&w=2 To fix the problem, I've revived real_max_depth without allocation optimization in init_tag_map, and Andrew Vasquez confirmed that the problem was fixed. As Jens is not going to be available for a week, he asked me to make sure that this patch reaches you. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112325778530886&w=2 Also, a comment was added to make sure that real_max_size is needed for dynamic shrinking. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02[PATCH] cfq-iosched: fix problem with barriers and max_depth == 1Jens Axboe
CFQ will currently stall when using write barriers and the default max_depth setting of 1, since we artificially need a depth of 2 when pre-pending the first flush. So never deny the barrier request going to the device. This is a regression since 2.6.12, it was found in SUSE testing. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] cciss per disk queueMike Miller
This patch adds per disk queue functionality to cciss. Sometime back I submitted a patch but it looks like only part of what I needed. In the 2.6 kernel if we have more than one logical volume the driver will Oops during rmmod. It seems all of the queues actually point back to the same queue. So after deleting the first volume you hit a null pointer on the second one. This has been tested in our labs. There is no difference in performance, it just fixes the Oops. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_stringOlaf Hering
turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ub: fix for blank CDsPete Zaitcev
This patch fixes a microcode lockup in my CD-ROM adapters when a blank CD is inserted. However, do not try to burn CDs yet! I'm pretty sure that trying it will end in coasters. - Fix a few cases where we were unable to resynchronize with replies for previous commands. The main thing is to keep reading replies in case of a stall. This is done with the new state CLRRS. - Since I am forgetting the basic state machine already, document it. - Move counter increments in the looping path in its own function. - Fix a harmless buglet in case CSW read fails to submit: do not override state. - Implement the Alan Stern's idea for adaptive signature checking. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] as-iosched tunable encoding fixJens Axboe
AS is doing internal msec<->jiffies conversions twice, so the sysfs tunables which represent time are coming out wrong. The switch from HZ=1000 exposed this. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-29[PATCH] Fix get_request nastinessHugh Dickins
get_request is now expected to be holding on to queue_lock, with interrupts disabled, when it returns NULL; but one path forgot that, causing all kinds of nastiness under swap load - badness backtraces, strange failures, BUGs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28[PATCH] blk: light iocontext opsNick Piggin
get_io_context needlessly turned off interrupts and checked for racing io context creations. Both of which aren't needed, because the io context can only be created while in process context of the current process. Also, split the function in 2. A light version, current_io_context does not elevate the reference count specifically, but can be used when in process context, because the process holds a reference itself. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28[PATCH] blk: reduce lockingNick Piggin
Change around locking a bit for a result of 1-2 less spin lock unlock pairs in request submission paths. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28[PATCH] blk: __make_request efficiencyNick Piggin
In the case where the request is not able to be merged by the elevator, don't retake the lock and retry the merge mechanism after allocating a new request. Instead assume that the chance of a merge remains slim, and now that we've done most of the work allocating a request we may as well just go with it. Also be rid of the GFP_ATOMIC allocation: we've got working mempools for the block layer now, so let's save atomic memory for things like networking. Lastly, in get_request_wait, do an initial get_request call before going into the waitqueue. This is reported to help efficiency. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28[PATCH] ll_rw_blk: prevent huge request allocationsJens Axboe
Currently we cap request allocations at q->nr_requests, but we allow a batching io context to allocate up to 32 more (default setting). This can flood the queue with request allocations, with only a few batching processes. The real fix would be to limit the number of batchers, but as that isn't currently tracked, I suggest we just cap the maximum number of allocated requests to eg 50% over the limit. This was observed in real life, users typically see this as vmstat bo numbers going off the wall with seconds of no queueing afterwards. Behaviour this bursty is not beneficial. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28[PATCH] cciss_ioctl() warning fixAndrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] cfq build fixAndrew Morton
drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfq_put_queue': drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:303: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'cfq_pending_requests': function body not available drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:1080: sorry, unimplemented: called from here drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function '__cfq_may_queue': drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:1955: warning: the address of 'cfq_cfqq_must_alloc_slice', will always evaluate as 'true' make[1]: *** [drivers/block/cfq-iosched.o] Error 1 make: *** [drivers/block/cfq-iosched.o] Error 2 Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] cciss: remove partition info from CCISS_GETLUNINFOMike Miller
This patch fulfills a promise I made to Christoph sometime back. I am removing the partition info from the CCISS_GETLUNINFO ioctl as I was informed my "driver had no damn business reading that structure." ;) The application folks are to use /proc or /sys for partition info from now on. I am only aware of a few apps that use this ioctl and I'm not sure they ever used the partition info. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] cciss: pci domain info pass 2Mike Miller
This is pass 2 of my patch to add pci domain info to an existing ioctl. This time I insert the domain between dev_fn and board_id as Willy suggested and change the var to unsigned short to ease Christoph's concerns. Although I thought unsigned int was the correct var type for this. I also thought it didn't matter where I inserted it in the structure. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] cciss: pci id fixMike Miller
This patch fixes a PCI ID I got wrong before. It also adds support for another new SAS controller due out this summer. I didn't have a marketing name prior to my last submission. Also modifies the copyright date range. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] ppc32: Remove CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOKBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch removes CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK (PowerBook support). This is now split into CONFIG_PMAC_MEDIABAY for the actual hotswap bay that some powerbooks have, CONFIG_PM for power management related code, and just left out of any CONFIG_* option for some generally useful stuff that can be used on non-laptops as well. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27Merge 'upstream' branch of ↵Linus Torvalds
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6
2005-06-27[PATCH] CFQ io scheduler: scheduler switch oopsJens Axboe
If cfq is managing a queue and a new scheduler is later selected, it is possible for the cfqd unplug_work work to be queued after the kblockd work struct has been flushed. The problem is the ordering of cfq_shutdown_timer_wq() and blk_put_queue() in cfq_put_cfqd(). The latter may rearm the work, leaving cfq_kick_queue() with dead data. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] CFQ io scheduler updatesJens Axboe
- Adjust slice values - Instead of one async queue, one is defined per priority level. This prevents kernel threads (such as reiserfs/x and others) that run at higher io priority from conflicting with others. Previously, it was a coin toss what io prio the async queue got, it was defined by who first set up the queue. - Let a time slice only begin, when the previous slice is completely done. Previously we could be somewhat unfair to a new sync slice, if the previous slice was async and had several ios queued. This might need a little tweaking if throughput suffers a little due to this, allowing perhaps an overlap of a single request or so. - Optimize the calling of kblockd_schedule_work() by doing it only when it is strictly necessary (no requests in driver and work left to do). - Correct sync vs async logic. A 'normal' process can be purely async as well, and a flusher can be purely sync as well. Sync or async is now a property of the class defined and requests pending. Previously writers could be considered sync, when they were really async. - Get rid of the bit fields in cfqq and crq, use flags instead. - Various other cleanups and fixes Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>