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Commit 488991e2 authored by Alan D. Brunelle's avatar Alan D. Brunelle Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O



Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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