Commit ec8acb69 authored Jan 02, 2007 by Jens Axboe Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 02, 2007

[PATCH] cfq-iosched: merging problem



Two issues:

- The final return 1 should be a return 0, otherwise comparing cfqq is
  a noop.

- bio_sync() only checks the sync flag, while rq_is_sync() checks both
  for READ and sync. The latter is what we want. Expand the bio check
  to include reads, and relax the restriction to allow merging of async
  io into sync requests.

In the future we want to clean up the SYNC logic, right now it means
both sync request (such as READ and O_DIRECT WRITE) and unplug-on-issue.
Leave that for later.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent dc3c3377

block/cfq-iosched.c

+3 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -577,9 +577,9 @@ static int cfq_allow_merge(request_queue_t q, struct request rq,
		pid_t key;

		/*
		* Disallow merge, if bio and rq aren't both sync or async
		* Disallow merge of a sync bio into an async request.
		*/
		if (!!bio_sync(bio) != !!rq_is_sync(rq))
		if ((bio_data_dir(bio) == READ \|\| bio_sync(bio)) && !rq_is_sync(rq))
		return 0;

		/*
		@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static int cfq_allow_merge(request_queue_t q, struct request rq,
		if (cfqq == RQ_CFQQ(rq))
		return 1;

		return 1;
		return 0;
		}

		static inline void