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* [PATCH 0/10] On-stack explicit block queue plugging
@ 2011-01-22  1:17 Jens Axboe
  2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 01/10] block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit Jens Axboe
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From: Jens Axboe @ 2011-01-22  1:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jaxboe, linux-kernel; +Cc: hch

Hi,

This is something that I have been sitting on for a while and
I finally got a bit of time to bring it up to date and at least
ensure that basic functionality was there.

Currently we use what I call implicit IO plugging for block devices.
This means that the target block device queue may or may not be
"plugged" when someone submits IO. The IO submitter has to
ensure that the IO is sent off by calling a function to submit
it. This ugliness propagates through to the vm, which needs a
->sync_page() hook to ensure that things are submitted if someone
ends up waiting on a page.

Additionally, queue plugging ends up being a burden on the
queue lock (which is already heavily contended in some cases).
By moving to an explicit plugging scheme we make the API nicer,
get rid of the ->sync_page() vm hack, and allow IO to be queued
up in an on-stack structure and submitted in batches to the
block device queue.

Right now only submission of mergeable IO is lockless, the next
step is ensuring that rq allocation can be less queue lock
intensive and get some benefits there as well. There's an
unrelated batching change in this series as well that doesn't
really belong that's the start of that.

The patch boots and runs on my laptop, but apart from that I make
no guarantees as to the state of it. Particularly the md and dm
changes are quite invasive and need both careful review (and then,
I'm sure, bug fixing) and testing.

Patches are against 2.6.38-rc1 and can also be found in the block
git tree, in the for-2.6.39/stack-plug branch.

I'm traveling, so I'll tend to replies/comments/reviews/bugs on
this patch series when I get back early next week.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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2011-01-22  1:17 [PATCH 0/10] On-stack explicit block queue plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 01/10] block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 02/10] ide-cd: convert to blk_delay_queue() for a short pause Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:19   ` David Miller
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 03/10] scsi: convert to blk_delay_queue() Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 04/10] block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:36   ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 21:23     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-10 16:54   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-10 19:32     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-10 19:46       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-16  8:18   ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-16 17:31     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-17  1:00       ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-17  3:19         ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-17  9:44           ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-18  1:55             ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-17  9:43         ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-18  6:36           ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-18 12:54             ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-18 13:52               ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-21  6:52                 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-21  9:20                   ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-22  0:32                     ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-22  7:36                       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-17  9:39     ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:31   ` Nick Piggin
2011-03-03 21:23   ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-03 21:27     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-03 22:13     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-04 13:02       ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-04 13:20         ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 21:43         ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-04 21:50           ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 22:27             ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-05 20:54               ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 10:23                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-07 19:43                   ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 20:41                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-07 20:46                       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08  9:38                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-08  9:41                           ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07  0:54             ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-07  8:07               ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 12:16       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 20:21         ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-08 20:27           ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 21:36             ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-09  7:25               ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 22:05             ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-10  0:58               ` Mike Snitzer
2011-04-05  3:05                 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11  4:50                   ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11  4:50                     ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11  9:19                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 10:59                       ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 11:04                         ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 11:26                           ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 11:37                             ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 12:05                               ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 12:11                                 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 12:36                                   ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 12:48                                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12  1:12                                       ` hch
2011-04-12  8:36                                         ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 12:22                                           ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 12:28                                             ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 12:41                                               ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 12:58                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 13:31                                                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 13:45                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 14:34                                                       ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 21:08                                                         ` NeilBrown
2011-04-13  2:23                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 11:12                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-13 11:23                                                               ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-13 11:41                                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-13 15:13                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 17:35                                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 16:58                                                     ` hch
2011-04-12 17:29                                                       ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 16:44                                                   ` hch
2011-04-12 16:49                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 16:54                                                       ` hch
2011-04-12 17:24                                                         ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 13:40                                               ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 13:48                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 23:35                                                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 16:50                                           ` hch
2011-04-15  4:26                                   ` hch
2011-04-15  6:34                                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-17 22:19                                   ` NeilBrown
2011-04-17 22:19                                     ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18  4:19                                     ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18  4:19                                       ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18  6:38                                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18  7:25                                       ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18  8:10                                         ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18  8:10                                           ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18  8:33                                           ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18  8:42                                             ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18  8:42                                               ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 21:23                                             ` hch
2011-04-22 15:39                                               ` hch
2011-04-22 16:01                                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-22 16:10                                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-18 21:30                                             ` hch
2011-04-18 22:38                                               ` NeilBrown
2011-04-20 10:55                                                 ` hch
2011-04-18  9:19                                           ` hch
2011-04-18  9:40                                             ` [dm-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-04-18  9:40                                               ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-04-18  9:47                                               ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18  9:46                                             ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 11:55                         ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 12:12                           ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 22:58                             ` hch
2011-04-12  6:20                               ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 16:59                     ` hch
2011-04-11 21:14                       ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 22:59                         ` hch
2011-04-12  6:18                         ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-17 15:51               ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-17 18:31                 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-17 18:46                   ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-18  9:15                     ` hch
2011-03-08 12:15     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04  4:00   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-08 12:24     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 22:10       ` blk-throttle: Use blk_plug in throttle code (Was: Re: [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging) Vivek Goyal
2011-03-09  7:26         ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 06/10] block: kill request allocation batching Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  9:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-24 19:09     ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 07/10] fs: make generic file read/write functions plug Jens Axboe
2011-01-24  3:57   ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-24 19:11     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04  4:09   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-04 13:22     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 13:25       ` hch
2011-03-04 13:40         ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 14:08           ` hch
2011-03-04 22:07             ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 23:12               ` hch
2011-03-08 12:38         ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-09 10:38           ` hch
2011-03-09 10:52             ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 08/10] read-ahead: use plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 09/10] fs: make mpage read/write_pages() plug Jens Axboe
2011-01-22  1:17 ` [PATCH 10/10] fs: make aio plug Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 17:59   ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 19:09     ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:15       ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 19:22         ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:29           ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 19:31             ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:38               ` Jeff Moyer

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