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Andrew Morton authored
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> There's a small discrepancy in when we decide to unplug a queue based on q->unplug_thresh. Basically it doesn't work for tagged queues, since q->rq.count[READ] + q->rq.count[WRITE] is just the number of allocated requests, not the number of requests stuck in the io scheduler. We could just change the nr_queued == to a nr_queued >=, however that is still suboptimal. This patch adds accounting for requests that have been dequeued from the io scheduler, but not freed yet. These are q->in_flight. allocated_requests - q->in_flight == requests_in_scheduler. So the condition correctly becomes if (requests_in_scheduler == q->unplug_thresh) instead. I did a quick round of testing, and for dbench on a SCSI disk the number of timer induced unplugs was reduced from 13 to 5 :-). Not a huge number, but there might be cases where it's more significant. Either way, it gets ->unplug_thresh always right, which the old logic didn't.
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