1. 10 Nov, 2014 7 commits
  2. 05 Nov, 2014 1 commit
  3. 04 Nov, 2014 27 commits
  4. 29 Oct, 2014 2 commits
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      blk-mq: add BLK_MQ_F_DEFER_ISSUE support flag · e167dfb5
      Jens Axboe authored
      Drivers can now tell blk-mq if they take advantage of the deferred
      issue through 'last' or not. If they do, don't do queue-direct
      for sync IO. This is a preparation patch for the nvme conversion.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      e167dfb5
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      blk-mq: add a 'list' parameter to ->queue_rq() · 74c45052
      Jens Axboe authored
      Since we have the notion of a 'last' request in a chain, we can use
      this to have the hardware optimize the issuing of requests. Add
      a list_head parameter to queue_rq that the driver can use to
      temporarily store hw commands for issue when 'last' is true. If we
      are doing a chain of requests, pass in a NULL list for the first
      request to force issue of that immediately, then batch the remainder
      for deferred issue until the last request has been sent.
      
      Instead of adding yet another argument to the hot ->queue_rq path,
      encapsulate the passed arguments in a blk_mq_queue_data structure.
      This is passed as a constant, and has been tested as faster than
      passing 4 (or even 3) args through ->queue_rq. Update drivers for
      the new ->queue_rq() prototype. There are no functional changes
      in this patch for drivers - if they don't use the passed in list,
      then they will just queue requests individually like before.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      74c45052
  5. 21 Oct, 2014 1 commit
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap · 34b48db6
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      Set max_sectors to the value the drivers provides as hardware limit by
      default.  Linux had proper I/O throttling for a long time and doesn't
      rely on a artifically small maximum I/O size anymore.  By not limiting
      the I/O size by default we remove an annoying tuning step required for
      most Linux installation.
      
      Note that both the user, and if absolutely required the driver can still
      impose a limit for FS requests below max_hw_sectors_kb.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      34b48db6
  6. 20 Oct, 2014 2 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · c2661b80
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
       "A large number of cleanups and bug fixes, with some (minor) journal
        optimizations"
      
      [ This got sent to me before -rc1, but was stuck in my spam folder.   - Linus ]
      
      * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (67 commits)
        ext4: check s_chksum_driver when looking for bg csum presence
        ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
        ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function
        ext4: delete useless comments about ext4_move_extents
        ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin
        ext4: add ext4_iget_normal() which is to be used for dir tree lookups
        ext4: don't orphan or truncate the boot loader inode
        ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
        ext4: optimize block allocation on grow indepth
        ext4: get rid of code duplication
        ext4: fix over-defensive complaint after journal abort
        ext4: fix return value of ext4_do_update_inode
        ext4: fix mmap data corruption when blocksize < pagesize
        vfs: fix data corruption when blocksize < pagesize for mmaped data
        ext4: fold ext4_nojournal_sops into ext4_sops
        ext4: support freezing ext2 (nojournal) file systems
        ext4: fold ext4_sync_fs_nojournal() into ext4_sync_fs()
        ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files
        jbd2: simplify calling convention around __jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list
        jbd2: avoid pointless scanning of checkpoint lists
        ...
      c2661b80
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.18-rc1 · f114040e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      f114040e