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:Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block 14 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
- Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt 5 additions, 5 deletionsDocumentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
- block/blk-sysfs.c 7 additions, 4 deletionsblock/blk-sysfs.c
- block/elevator.c 10 additions, 1 deletionblock/elevator.c
- include/linux/blkdev.h 3 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/blkdev.h
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