Unlike other ioscheds, as-iosched handles alias by chaing them using
rq->queuelist.  As aliased requests are very rare in the first place,
this complicates merge/dispatch handling without meaningful
performance improvement.  This patch updates as-iosched to dump
aliased requests into dispatch queue as other ioscheds do.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Kill the arq->state poison statement in as_add_request(), it can trigger
for perfectly valid code that just reuses a request after io completion
instead of freeing it and allocating a new one. We probably should
introduce a blk_init_request() to start from scratch, but for now just
kill it as we will be removing the as specific poisoning soon.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Some leftover comments referring to drivers/block that are now block/.
They don't add any information we don't already have, so kill them.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

We're trying to get rid of as much as possible tasklist walks, or at
least moving them to core code.  This patch falls into the second
category.

Instead of walking the tasklist in cfq-iosched move that into
elv_unregister.  The added benefit is that with this change the as
ioscheduler might be might unloadable more easily aswell.

The new code uses read_lock instead of read_lock_irq because the
tasklist_lock only needs irq disabling for writers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

as-iosched deals with aliased requests differently from other ioscheds.

It links together aliased requests using rq->queuelist instead of
spilling alises to dispatch queue like other ioscheds do.  Requests
linked in this way cannot be merged.

Unfortunately, generic q->last_merge handling patch didn't take this
into account and q->last_merge could be set to an aliased request
resulting in Badness, corrupt list and eventually panic.

This explicitly marks aliased requests to be unmergeable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove last_merge handling from all ioscheds.  This patch
removes merging capability of noop iosched.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

This patch updates all four ioscheds to use generic dispatch
queue.  There's one behavior change in as-iosched.

* In as-iosched, when force dispatching
  (ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK), batch_data_dir is reset to REQ_SYNC
  and changed_batch and new_batch are cleared to zero.  This
  prevernts AS from doing incorrect update_write_batch after
  the forced dispatched requests are finished.

* In cfq-iosched, cfqd->rq_in_driver currently counts the
  number of activated (removed) requests to determine
  whether queue-kicking is needed and cfq_max_depth has been
  reached.  With generic dispatch queue, I think counting
  the number of dispatched requests would be more appropriate.

* cfq_max_depth can be lowered to 1 again.

Original from Tejun Heo, modified version applied.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

AS is doing internal msec<->jiffies conversions twice, so the sysfs tunables
which represent time are coming out wrong.  The switch from HZ=1000 exposed
this.

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq
v3).  It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent
aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes.  It
supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set
directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls.  The latter closely mimic
set/getpriority.

This import is based on my latest from -mm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Patch to allocate the control structures for for ide devices on the node of
the device itself (for NUMA systems).  The patch depends on the Slab API
change patch by Manfred and me (in mm) and the pcidev_to_node patch that I
posted today.

Does some realignment too.

Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin Shelar <pravin@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

sysfs: fix drivers/block so if an attribute doesn't implement
       show or store method read/write will return -EIO
       instead of 0 or -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!