block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
authorAlan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:04:08 +0000 (09:04 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:04:08 +0000 (09:04 +0100)
commit488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c
treefea5e0aca42e338137cc050e66aaeb5f539e3d21
parent47483e25205f1f8d79784f0f7c733941bc080ec0
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>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
block/blk-sysfs.c
block/elevator.c
include/linux/blkdev.h