block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).
The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.
nomerges Throughput %System Improvement (tput / %sys)
-------- ------------ ----------- -------------------------
0 12.45 MB/sec 0.669365609
1 12.50 MB/sec 0.641519199 0.40% / 2.71%
2 12.52 MB/sec 0.639849750 0.56% / 2.96%
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 9ad5ccc..ee3a883 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -474,6 +474,15 @@
int ret;
/*
+ * Levels of merges:
+ * nomerges: No merges at all attempted
+ * noxmerges: Only simple one-hit cache try
+ * merges: All merge tries attempted
+ */
+ if (blk_queue_nomerges(q))
+ return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE;
+
+ /*
* First try one-hit cache.
*/
if (q->last_merge) {
@@ -484,7 +493,7 @@
}
}
- if (blk_queue_nomerges(q))
+ if (blk_queue_noxmerges(q))
return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE;
/*