From 274193224cdabd687d804a26e0150bb20f2dd52c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:00:31 +0100 Subject: block: recursive merge requests In my workload, thread 1 accesses a, a+2, ..., thread 2 accesses a+1, a+3,.... When the requests are flushed to queue, a and a+1 are merged to (a, a+1), a+2 and a+3 too to (a+2, a+3), but (a, a+1) and (a+2, a+3) aren't merged. With recursive merge below, the workload throughput gets improved 20% and context switch drops 60%. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/elevator.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/elevator.c') diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c index 91e18f8af9b..99838f460b4 100644 --- a/block/elevator.c +++ b/block/elevator.c @@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static bool elv_attempt_insert_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) { struct request *__rq; + bool ret; if (blk_queue_nomerges(q)) return false; @@ -528,14 +529,21 @@ static bool elv_attempt_insert_merge(struct request_queue *q, if (blk_queue_noxmerges(q)) return false; + ret = false; /* * See if our hash lookup can find a potential backmerge. */ - __rq = elv_rqhash_find(q, blk_rq_pos(rq)); - if (__rq && blk_attempt_req_merge(q, __rq, rq)) - return true; + while (1) { + __rq = elv_rqhash_find(q, blk_rq_pos(rq)); + if (!__rq || !blk_attempt_req_merge(q, __rq, rq)) + break; - return false; + /* The merged request could be merged with others, try again */ + ret = true; + rq = __rq; + } + + return ret; } void elv_merged_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq, int type) -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258