On Tue, Feb 19 2008, Kyungmin Park wrote: > > Le Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:48:18 +0900, > > "Kyungmin Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > > + /* Write synchronous */ > > > + bio->bi_rw |= (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC); > > > > Adding BIO_RW_SYNC doesn't make generic_make_request() synchronous as > > in "generic_make_request() returns only after write completion". > > BIO_RW_SYNC only asks the I/O layer to unplug immediatly. But > > generic_make_request() still returns before the completion of the I/O, > > and the completion is notified asynchronously. > > > > Agree, however see the following sequence. > > __generic_make_request call q->make_request_fn(q, bio); > It was set by blk_init_queue_node with __make_request. > There are two ways in __make_request. > Case 1, get_rq > Case 2, out or merged (otherwise you mean unplug case) > > In case 1, if the BIO_RW_SYNC is set, the request gets the REQ_RW_SYNC > And REQ_RW_SYNC says > "include/linux/blkdev.h":112: __REQ_RW_SYNC, /* request is sync > (O_DIRECT) */ > It means it acts as O_DIRECT flag. Is it right? > And it also is same as case 2. Unplug the device. > So next time it hasn't chance to merge???
But that still doesn't make it sync. I think you are working the wrong way. For ssd we still want merging and plugging also makes sense to some degree, though it probably should be minimized. It'll only cause an initial latency, for busy IO workloads you wont be plugging/unplugging much anyway. In fact your patch makes things WORSE, since the io schedulers will now treat the IO as sync and introduce idling for the disk head. And you definitely don't want that. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
