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| author | Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> | 2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-01-29 09:04:08 +0100 |
| commit | 488991e28e55b4fbca8067edf0259f69d1a6f92c (patch) | |
| tree | fea5e0aca42e338137cc050e66aaeb5f539e3d21 /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | 47483e25205f1f8d79784f0f7c733941bc080ec0 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index d2f90334bb93..4873c759d535 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -128,3 +128,17 @@ Description: preferred request size for workloads where sustained throughput is desired. If no optimal I/O size is reported this file contains 0. + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nomerges +Date: January 2010 +Contact: +Description: + Standard I/O elevator operations include attempts to + merge contiguous I/Os. For known random I/O loads these + attempts will always fail and result in extra cycles + being spent in the kernel. This allows one to turn off + this behavior on one of two ways: When set to 1, complex + merge checks are disabled, but the simple one-shot merges + with the previous I/O request are enabled. When set to 2, + all merge tries are disabled. The default value is 0 - + which enables all types of merge tries. |