[PATCH v2] dm: pass up non-rotational flag

Mike Snitzer
2011-05-26T18:35:47Z

Allow QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT to propagate up the device stack if all
underlying devices are non-rotational. Tools like ureadahead will
schedule IOs differently based on the rotational flag.

With this patch, I see boot time go from 7.75 s to 7.46 s on my device.

Suggested-by: J. Richard Barnette <jrbarnette@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
---
drivers/md/dm-table.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

v2: last minute edit was to avoid double-negative in
dm_table_set_restrictions's dm_table_is_nonrot conditional

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
index cb8380c..a173828 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
@@ -1177,6 +1177,31 @@ static void dm_table_set_integrity(struct dm_table *t)
blk_get_integrity(template_disk));
}

+static int device_is_nonrot(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
+ sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data)
+{
+ struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(dev->bdev);
+
+ return q && blk_queue_nonrot(q);
+}
+
+static bool dm_table_is_nonrot(struct dm_table *t)
+{
+ struct dm_target *ti;
+ unsigned i = 0;
+
+ /* Ensure that all underlying device are non-rotational. */
+ while (i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t)) {
+ ti = dm_table_get_target(t, i++);
+
+ if (!ti->type->iterate_devices ||
+ !ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_is_nonrot, NULL))
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
struct queue_limits *limits)
{
@@ -1190,6 +1215,11 @@ void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,
else
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q);

+ if (dm_table_is_nonrot(t))
+ queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
+ else
+ queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
+
dm_table_set_integrity(t);

/*