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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-12-13 03:43:26 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-13 05:55:08 +0300
commit9491ae4aade6814afcfa67f4eb3e3342c2b39750 (patch)
treece3bd5d3a5c504548583ce581525011594589d59 /block/blk-settings.c
parentf1f5929cd9715c1cdfe07a890f12ac7d2c5304ec (diff)
downloadlinux-9491ae4aade6814afcfa67f4eb3e3342c2b39750.tar.xz
mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting
We ran into a funky issue, where someone doing 256K buffered reads saw 128K requests at the device level. Turns out it is read-ahead capping the request size, since we use 128K as the default setting. This doesn't make a lot of sense - if someone is issuing 256K reads, they should see 256K reads, regardless of the read-ahead setting, if the underlying device can support a 256K read in a single command. This patch introduces a bdi hint, io_pages. This is the soft max IO size for the lower level, I've hooked it up to the bdev settings here. Read-ahead is modified to issue the maximum of the user request size, and the read-ahead max size, but capped to the max request size on the device side. The latter is done to avoid reading ahead too much, if the application asks for a huge read. With this patch, the kernel behaves like the application expects. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479498073-8657-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-settings.c')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-settings.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index f679ae122843..65f16cf4f850 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ void blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int max_hw_secto
max_sectors = min_not_zero(max_hw_sectors, limits->max_dev_sectors);
max_sectors = min_t(unsigned int, max_sectors, BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS);
limits->max_sectors = max_sectors;
+ q->backing_dev_info.io_pages = max_sectors >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_max_hw_sectors);