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  1. Apr 07, 2012
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      block: make auto block plug flush threshold per-disk based · 1b2e19f1
      Shaohua Li authored 
      

We do auto block plug flush to reduce latency, the threshold is 16
requests. This works well if the task is accessing one or two drives.
The problem is if the task is accessing a raid 0 device and the raid
disk number is big, say 8 or 16, 16/8 = 2 or 16/16=1, we will have
heavy lock contention.

This patch makes the threshold per-disk based. The latency should be
still ok accessing one or two drives. The setup with application
accessing a lot of drives in the meantime uaually is big machine,
avoiding lock contention is more important, because any contention
will actually increase latency.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      1b2e19f1
  3. Apr 02, 2012
    • Tao Ma's avatar
      Documentation: Add sysfs ABI change for cfq's target latency. · 407ac95e
      Tao Ma authored 
      

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      407ac95e
    • Tao Ma's avatar
      block: Make cfq_target_latency tunable through sysfs. · 5bf14c07
      Tao Ma authored 
      

In cfq, when we calculate a time slice for a process(or a cfqq to
be precise), we have to consider the cfq_target_latency so that all the
sync request have an estimated latency(300ms) and it is controlled by
cfq_target_latency. But in some hadoop test, we have found that if
there are many processes doing sequential read(24 for example), the
throughput is bad because every process can only work for about 25ms
and the cfqq is switched. That leads to a higher disk seek. We can
achive the good throughput by setting low_latency=0, but then some
read's latency is too much for the application.

So this patch makes cfq_target_latency tunable through sysfs so that
we can tune it and find some magic number which is not bad for both
the throughput and the read latency.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      5bf14c07
  5. Mar 30, 2012
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  9. Mar 19, 2012
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.3 · c16fa4f2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      c16fa4f2
    • Jason Baron's avatar
      Don't limit non-nested epoll paths · 93dc6107
      Jason Baron authored 
      Commit 28d82dc1

 ("epoll: limit paths") that I did to limit the
number of possible wakeup paths in epoll is causing a few applications
to longer work (dovecot for one).

The original patch is really about limiting the amount of epoll nesting
(since epoll fds can be attached to other fds). Thus, we probably can
allow an unlimited number of paths of depth 1. My current patch limits
it at 1000. And enforce the limits on paths that have a greater depth.

This is captured in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      93dc6107
  11. Mar 18, 2012
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · c579bc7e
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull networking changes from David Miller:
 "1) icmp6_dst_alloc() returns NULL instead of ERR_PTR() leading to
     crashes, particularly during shutdown.  Reported by Dave Jones and
     fixed by Eric Dumazet.

  2) hyperv and wimax/i2400m return NETDEV_TX_BUSY when they have
     already freed the SKB, which causes crashes as to the caller this
     means requeue the packet.  Fixes from Eric Dumazet.

  3) usbnet driver doesn't allocate the right amount of headroom on
     fresh RX SKBs, fix from Eric Dumazet.

  4) Fix regression in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu(), as an RCU lookup it
     abolutely should not take a reference to 'dev', this leads to
     leaks.  Fix from RonQing Li.

  5) Fix netfilter ctnetlink race between delete and timeout expiration.
     From Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  6) Revert SFQ change which causes regressions, specifically queueing
     to tail can lead to unavoidable flow starvation.  From Eric
     Dumazet.

  7) Fix a memory leak and a crash on corrupt firmware files in bnx2x,
     from Michal Schmidt."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix race between delete and timeout expiration
  ipv6: Don't dev_hold(dev) in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu.
  wimax/i2400m: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use
  net/hyperv: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use
  net/usbnet: reserve headroom on rx skbs
  bnx2x: fix memory leak in bnx2x_init_firmware()
  bnx2x: fix a crash on corrupt firmware file
  sch_sfq: revert dont put new flow at the end of flows
  ipv6: fix icmp6_dst_alloc()
      c579bc7e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 96ee0499
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf tools, x86: Build perf on older user-space as well
  perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable
  perf tools: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGV
      96ee0499
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