block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
Currently drivers must do an elevator_exit() + elevator_init()
to switch IO schedulers. There are a few problems with this:
- Since commit 1abec4fdbb142e3ccb6ce99832fae42129134a96,
elevator_init() requires a zeroed out q->elevator
pointer. The two existing in-kernel users don't do that.
- It will only work at initialization time, since using the
above two-staged construct does not properly quisce the queue.
So add elevator_change() which takes care of this, and convert
the elv_iosched_store() sysfs interface to use this helper as well.
Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Kevin Vigor <kevin@vigor.nu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/elevator.h b/include/linux/elevator.h
index 2c958f4..926b503 100644
--- a/include/linux/elevator.h
+++ b/include/linux/elevator.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
extern int elevator_init(struct request_queue *, char *);
extern void elevator_exit(struct elevator_queue *);
+extern int elevator_change(struct request_queue *, const char *);
extern int elv_rq_merge_ok(struct request *, struct bio *);
/*