From 4aede84b33d6beb401136a3deca0651ae07c5e99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin TerAvest Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:31:45 +0200 Subject: fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task. fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many cases (like across cgroups). fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed a boost. It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete. Lets kill it. Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 28 +--------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/cfq-iosched.c') diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index 762bd509b71b..d8b108737b72 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct cfq_queue { /* io prio of this group */ unsigned short ioprio, org_ioprio; - unsigned short ioprio_class, org_ioprio_class; + unsigned short ioprio_class; pid_t pid; @@ -2869,7 +2869,6 @@ static void cfq_init_prio_data(struct cfq_queue *cfqq, struct io_context *ioc) * elevate the priority of this queue */ cfqq->org_ioprio = cfqq->ioprio; - cfqq->org_ioprio_class = cfqq->ioprio_class; cfq_clear_cfqq_prio_changed(cfqq); } @@ -3593,30 +3592,6 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) cfq_schedule_dispatch(cfqd); } -/* - * we temporarily boost lower priority queues if they are holding fs exclusive - * resources. they are boosted to normal prio (CLASS_BE/4) - */ -static void cfq_prio_boost(struct cfq_queue *cfqq) -{ - if (has_fs_excl()) { - /* - * boost idle prio on transactions that would lock out other - * users of the filesystem - */ - if (cfq_class_idle(cfqq)) - cfqq->ioprio_class = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE; - if (cfqq->ioprio > IOPRIO_NORM) - cfqq->ioprio = IOPRIO_NORM; - } else { - /* - * unboost the queue (if needed) - */ - cfqq->ioprio_class = cfqq->org_ioprio_class; - cfqq->ioprio = cfqq->org_ioprio; - } -} - static inline int __cfq_may_queue(struct cfq_queue *cfqq) { if (cfq_cfqq_wait_request(cfqq) && !cfq_cfqq_must_alloc_slice(cfqq)) { @@ -3647,7 +3622,6 @@ static int cfq_may_queue(struct request_queue *q, int rw) cfqq = cic_to_cfqq(cic, rw_is_sync(rw)); if (cfqq) { cfq_init_prio_data(cfqq, cic->ioc); - cfq_prio_boost(cfqq); return __cfq_may_queue(cfqq); } -- cgit v1.2.3