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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-05-07 22:54:16 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-05-11 03:52:18 -0400
commit9934c8c04561413609d2bc38c6b9f268cba774a4 (patch)
tree30dd8f7be54f9b2e03094de9cd03b6a9ee2909cd /drivers/block/mg_disk.c
parent2343046826a8ca426b07601d9593ee046c298b68 (diff)
block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch
Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution. A request is always acquired from the request queue via elv_next_request(). After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it or process it without dequeueing. Dequeue allows elv_next_request() to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight. Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with segments only without considering request boundary. However, the benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API ambiguity is increasing. Segment based drivers are usually for very old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer and its more modern users. Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing model. This patch completes the API transition by... * renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request() * renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request() * adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start * disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests * applying new API to all LLDs Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating. [ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/mg_disk.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/mg_disk.c12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/mg_disk.c b/drivers/block/mg_disk.c
index 1ca5d1423fa3..c0cd0a03f698 100644
--- a/drivers/block/mg_disk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/mg_disk.c
@@ -671,10 +671,8 @@ static void mg_request_poll(struct request_queue *q)
671 671
672 while (1) { 672 while (1) {
673 if (!host->req) { 673 if (!host->req) {
674 host->req = elv_next_request(q); 674 host->req = blk_fetch_request(q);
675 if (host->req) 675 if (!host->req)
676 blkdev_dequeue_request(host->req);
677 else
678 break; 676 break;
679 } 677 }
680 678
@@ -744,10 +742,8 @@ static void mg_request(struct request_queue *q)
744 742
745 while (1) { 743 while (1) {
746 if (!host->req) { 744 if (!host->req) {
747 host->req = elv_next_request(q); 745 host->req = blk_fetch_request(q);
748 if (host->req) 746 if (!host->req)
749 blkdev_dequeue_request(host->req);
750 else
751 break; 747 break;
752 } 748 }
753 req = host->req; 749 req = host->req;