Commit 1181c1f9 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] noop-iosched: kill O(N) merge scan

Profiling hit rates on merging shows that the last merge hint works
extremely well for most work loads.  So lets kill the linear merge scan in
noop-iosched, so it provides O(1) run time for any operation.

Testing credits go to Ken Chen from Intel.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 41f11a4f
......@@ -13,34 +13,13 @@
static int elevator_noop_merge(request_queue_t *q, struct request **req,
struct bio *bio)
{
struct list_head *entry = &q->queue_head;
struct request *__rq;
int ret;
if ((ret = elv_try_last_merge(q, bio))) {
ret = elv_try_last_merge(q, bio);
if (ret != ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE)
*req = q->last_merge;
return ret;
}
while ((entry = entry->prev) != &q->queue_head) {
__rq = list_entry_rq(entry);
if (__rq->flags & (REQ_SOFTBARRIER | REQ_HARDBARRIER))
break;
else if (__rq->flags & REQ_STARTED)
break;
if (!blk_fs_request(__rq))
continue;
if ((ret = elv_try_merge(__rq, bio))) {
*req = __rq;
q->last_merge = __rq;
return ret;
}
}
return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE;
return ret;
}
static void elevator_noop_merge_requests(request_queue_t *q, struct request *req,
......
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