From: Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com
Subject: aio sysctl parms
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:03:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9F03C4.3020808@us.ibm.com> (raw)
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It looks like aio_nr and aio_max_nr were intended to be sysctl parameters.
Here's the patch for it:
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--- linux-2.6.0-test7/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt 2003-10-08 12:24:00.000000000 -0700
+++ aio-sysctl/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt 2003-10-17 12:55:30.039905816 -0700
@@ -138,3 +138,13 @@ thus the maximum number of mounted files
can have. You only need to increase super-max if you need to
mount more filesystems than the current value in super-max
allows you to.
+
+==============================================================
+
+aio-nr & aio-max-nr:
+
+aio-nr shows the current system-wide number of asynchronous io
+requests. aio-max-nr allows you to change the maximum value
+aio-nr can grow to.
+
+==============================================================
--- linux-2.6.0-test7/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2003-10-08 12:24:03.000000000 -0700
+++ aio-sysctl/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2003-10-17 13:45:12.036573416 -0700
@@ -900,6 +900,15 @@ super-nr shows the number of currently a
Every mounted file system needs a super block, so if you plan to mount lots of
file systems, you may want to increase these numbers.
+aio-nr and aio-max-nr
+---------------------
+
+aio-nr is the running total of the number of events specified on the
+io_setup system call for all currently active aio contexts. If aio-nr
+reaches aio-max-nr then io_setup will fail with EAGAIN. Note that
+raising aio-max-nr does not result in the pre-allocation or re-sizing
+of any kernel data structures.
+
2.2 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats
-----------------------------------------------------------
--- linux-2.6.0-test7/include/linux/aio.h 2003-10-08 12:24:01.000000000 -0700
+++ aio-sysctl/include/linux/aio.h 2003-10-17 12:27:01.574632016 -0700
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ static inline struct kiocb *list_kiocb(s
}
/* for sysctl: */
-extern unsigned aio_max_nr, aio_max_size, aio_max_pinned;
+extern atomic_t aio_nr;
+extern unsigned aio_max_nr;
#endif /* __LINUX__AIO_H */
--- linux-2.6.0-test7/include/linux/sysctl.h 2003-10-08 12:24:07.000000000 -0700
+++ aio-sysctl/include/linux/sysctl.h 2003-10-17 12:38:35.115197824 -0700
@@ -600,6 +600,8 @@ enum
FS_LEASE_TIME=15, /* int: maximum time to wait for a lease break */
FS_DQSTATS=16, /* disc quota usage statistics */
FS_XFS=17, /* struct: control xfs parameters */
+ FS_AIO_NR=18, /* current system-wide number of aio requests */
+ FS_AIO_MAX_NR=19, /* system-wide maximum number of aio requests */
};
/* /proc/sys/fs/quota/ */
--- linux-2.6.0-test7/kernel/sysctl.c 2003-10-08 12:24:02.000000000 -0700
+++ aio-sysctl/kernel/sysctl.c 2003-10-17 12:32:27.777041712 -0700
@@ -794,6 +794,22 @@ static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
+ {
+ .ctl_name = FS_AIO_NR,
+ .procname = "aio-nr",
+ .data = &aio_nr,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(aio_nr),
+ .mode = 0444,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
+ {
+ .ctl_name = FS_AIO_MAX_NR,
+ .procname = "aio-max-nr",
+ .data = &aio_max_nr,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(aio_max_nr),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};
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