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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-04-06 14:48:01 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-06 08:04:53 -0700
commit1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c (patch)
tree9a0d50be1ef0358c1f53d7107413100904e7d526 /include/linux/backing-dev.h
parent0221c81b1b8eb0cbb6b30a0ced52ead32d2b4e4c (diff)
block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead of doing the split on writes vs reads. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/backing-dev.h12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index bee52abb8a4..0ec2c594868 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ struct dentry;
*/
enum bdi_state {
BDI_pdflush, /* A pdflush thread is working this device */
- BDI_write_congested, /* The write queue is getting full */
- BDI_read_congested, /* The read queue is getting full */
+ BDI_async_congested, /* The async (write) queue is getting full */
+ BDI_sync_congested, /* The sync queue is getting full */
BDI_unused, /* Available bits start here */
};
@@ -215,18 +215,18 @@ static inline int bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int bdi_bits)
static inline int bdi_read_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- return bdi_congested(bdi, 1 << BDI_read_congested);
+ return bdi_congested(bdi, 1 << BDI_sync_congested);
}
static inline int bdi_write_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- return bdi_congested(bdi, 1 << BDI_write_congested);
+ return bdi_congested(bdi, 1 << BDI_async_congested);
}
static inline int bdi_rw_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- return bdi_congested(bdi, (1 << BDI_read_congested)|
- (1 << BDI_write_congested));
+ return bdi_congested(bdi, (1 << BDI_sync_congested) |
+ (1 << BDI_async_congested));
}
void clear_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int rw);