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 <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index c4198f0..2557280 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1128,6 +1128,8 @@
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;