[BLOCK] 0/4 explicit io plugging

[Jens Axboe]

This series of 4 patches switch the block layer to use explicit
plugging instead of the implicit plugging that takes place now when io
is queued against an empty queue.

The first three patches update RCU to include a QRCU method similar to
SRCU. QRCU is a bit heavier on the reader side, but a _lot_ cheaper for
the synchronization part. The new plugging scheme needs to synchronize
queue plugs for barriers and queue quiescing, so it needs to be cheap.

The fourth patch is the actual meat of the series. It also has a longer
explanation of the benefits of the explicit plugging.

I'm sending this out to get some review of the code, and to ask people
to do some testing. I'm looking for both the "hey it works for me" as
well as benchmark runs. In the performance category, I'm interested in
both high end (lots of CPUs) testing to see whether this actually does
reduce lock contention and block layer cpu utilization as well as more
simplistic io performance results on "normal" boxes to make sure we are
not regressing anywhere.

This code is also available in the 'plug' branch of the block layer git
repo:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git/

 Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt |   13 +
 Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt       |    6 
 Documentation/RCU/torture.txt   |   15 -
 Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt |    3 
 Documentation/block/biodoc.txt  |    5 
 block/as-iosched.c              |   15 -
 block/cfq-iosched.c             |    8 
 block/deadline-iosched.c        |    9 
 block/elevator.c                |   44 ---
 block/ll_rw_blk.c               |  483 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 block/noop-iosched.c            |    8 
 drivers/block/cciss.c           |    6 
 drivers/block/cpqarray.c        |    3 
 drivers/block/floppy.c          |    1 
 drivers/block/loop.c            |   12 
 drivers/block/pktcdvd.c         |    5 
 drivers/block/rd.c              |    2 
 drivers/block/umem.c            |   16 -
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c            |    9 
 drivers/ide/ide-io.c            |   25 --
 drivers/md/bitmap.c             |    1 
 drivers/md/dm-emc.c             |    2 
 drivers/md/dm-table.c           |   14 -
 drivers/md/dm.c                 |   18 -
 drivers/md/dm.h                 |    1 
 drivers/md/linear.c             |   14 -
 drivers/md/md.c                 |    3 
 drivers/md/multipath.c          |   32 --
 drivers/md/raid0.c              |   17 -
 drivers/md/raid1.c              |   70 -----
 drivers/md/raid10.c             |   73 ------
 drivers/md/raid5.c              |   60 ----
 drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c |    6 
 drivers/mmc/mmc_queue.c         |    3 
 drivers/s390/block/dasd.c       |    3 
 drivers/s390/char/tape_block.c  |    1 
 drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c         |    2 
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c         |   47 +--
 fs/adfs/inode.c                 |    1 
 fs/affs/file.c                  |    2 
 fs/befs/linuxvfs.c              |    1 
 fs/bfs/file.c                   |    1 
 fs/block_dev.c                  |    2 
 fs/buffer.c                     |   25 --
 fs/cifs/file.c                  |    2 
 fs/direct-io.c                  |    7 
 fs/ecryptfs/mmap.c              |   23 -
 fs/efs/inode.c                  |    1 
 fs/ext2/inode.c                 |    2 
 fs/ext3/inode.c                 |    3 
 fs/ext4/inode.c                 |    3 
 fs/fat/inode.c                  |    1 
 fs/freevxfs/vxfs_subr.c         |    1 
 fs/fuse/inode.c                 |    1 
 fs/gfs2/ops_address.c           |    1 
 fs/hfs/inode.c                  |    2 
 fs/hfsplus/inode.c              |    2 
 fs/hpfs/file.c                  |    1 
 fs/isofs/inode.c                |    1 
 fs/jfs/inode.c                  |    1 
 fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c           |    1 
 fs/minix/inode.c                |    1 
 fs/ntfs/aops.c                  |    4 
 fs/ntfs/compress.c              |    2 
 fs/ocfs2/aops.c                 |    1 
 fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c    |    4 
 fs/qnx4/inode.c                 |    1 
 fs/reiserfs/inode.c             |    1 
 fs/sysv/itree.c                 |    1 
 fs/udf/file.c                   |    1 
 fs/udf/inode.c                  |    1 
 fs/ufs/inode.c                  |    1 
 fs/ufs/truncate.c               |    2 
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c     |    1 
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c      |   15 -
 include/linux/backing-dev.h     |    3 
 include/linux/blkdev.h          |   75 +++---
 include/linux/buffer_head.h     |    1 
 include/linux/elevator.h        |    8 
 include/linux/fs.h              |    1 
 include/linux/pagemap.h         |   12 
 include/linux/raid/md.h         |    1 
 include/linux/sched.h           |    1 
 include/linux/srcu.h            |   30 ++
 include/linux/swap.h            |    2 
 kernel/rcutorture.c             |   71 +++++
 kernel/sched.c                  |    1 
 kernel/srcu.c                   |  105 ++++++++
 mm/filemap.c                    |   62 -----
 mm/nommu.c                      |    4 
 mm/page-writeback.c             |    8 
 mm/readahead.c                  |   11 
 mm/shmem.c                      |    1 
 mm/swap_state.c                 |    5 
 mm/swapfile.c                   |   37 ---
 mm/vmscan.c                     |    6 
 96 files changed, 632 insertions(+), 989 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/