linux/block, branch v2.6.16

[PATCH] block: disable block layer bouncing for most memory on 64bit systems

2006-03-09T02:10:31Z

The low level PCI DMA mapping functions should handle it in most cases. This should fix problems with depleting the DMA zone early. The old code used precious GFP_DMA memory in many cases where it was not needed. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cfq-iosched: slice expiry fixups

2006-02-28T08:38:02Z

During testing of SLES10, we encountered a hang in the CFQ io scheduler. Turns out the deferred slice expiry logic is buggy, so remove that for now. We could be left with an idle queue that would never wake up. So kill that logic, always expire immediately. Also fix a potential timer race condition. Patch looks bigger than it is, because it moves a function. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block

2006-02-08T15:58:18Z

[PATCH] block: implement elv_insert and use it (fix ordcolor flipping bug)

2006-02-08T15:52:58Z

q->ordcolor must only be flipped on initial queueing of a hardbarrier request. Constructing ordered sequence and requeueing used to pass through __elv_add_request() which flips q->ordcolor when it sees a barrier request. This patch separates out elv_insert() from __elv_add_request() and uses elv_insert() when constructing ordered sequence and requeueing. elv_insert() inserts the given request at the specified position and does nothing else. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] blk: Fix SG_IO ioctl failure retry looping

2006-02-08T09:07:13Z

When issuing an SG_IO ioctl through sd that resulted in an unrecoverable error, a nearly infinite retry loop was discovered. This is due to the fact that the block layer SG_IO code is not setting up rq->retries. This patch also fixes up the sg_scsi_ioctl path. Signed-off-by: Brian King Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] block: request_queue->ordcolor must not be flipped on SOFTBARRIER

2006-02-05T19:06:51Z

q->ordcolor must not be flipped on SOFTBARRIER. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix ordering on requeued request drainage

2006-02-05T19:06:51Z

Previously, if a fs request which was being drained failed and got requeued, blk_do_ordered() didn't allow it to be reissued, which causes queue stall. This patch makes blk_do_ordered() use the sequence of each request to determine whether a request can be issued or not. This fixes the bug and simplifies code. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs

2006-02-05T19:06:51Z

percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus. As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS loops to use for_each_cpu(). (The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h. powerpc has gone it alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's currently corrupting memory). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: James Bottomley Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Anton Blanchard Acked-by: William Irwin Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] device-mapper disk statistics: timing

2006-02-01T16:53:11Z

Record I/O timing statistics The start time is added to struct dm_io, an existing structure allocated privately internally within dm and attached to each incoming bio. We export disk_round_stats() from block/ll_rw_blk.c instead of creating a private clone. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi "Nick" Nomura Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[BLOCK] A few kerneldoc fixups

2006-01-31T14:24:34Z

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe