block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IO

By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the
previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only
sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes
being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those.

Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync
request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically
for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this
flag.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ea0510978f7..cae5720f431 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -95,11 +95,12 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define SWRITE 3        /* for ll_rw_block() - wait for buffer lock */
 #define READ_SYNC       (READ | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
 #define READ_META       (READ | (1 << BIO_RW_META))
-#define WRITE_SYNC      (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
-#define WRITE_SYNC_PLUG (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO))
-#define SWRITE_SYNC     (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
+#define WRITE_SYNC_PLUG (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE))
+#define WRITE_SYNC      (WRITE_SYNC_PLUG | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
+#define WRITE_ODIRECT   (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
 #define SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG        \
-        (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO))
+                        (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE))
+#define SWRITE_SYNC     (SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
 #define WRITE_BARRIER   (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))
 #define DISCARD_NOBARRIER (1 << BIO_RW_DISCARD)
 #define DISCARD_BARRIER ((1 << BIO_RW_DISCARD) | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))