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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index ffb13ad35716..f71f5c58620c 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ struct request_queue
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT     15       /* do IO stats */
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_CQ          16       /* hardware does queuing */
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD     17       /* supports DISCARD */
+#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES   18       /* No extended merges */
 
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT      ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) |            \
                                  (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER) |            \
@@ -589,6 +590,8 @@ enum {
 #define blk_queue_queuing(q)    test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_CQ, &(q)->queue_flags)
 #define blk_queue_stopped(q)    test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &(q)->queue_flags)
 #define blk_queue_nomerges(q)   test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
+#define blk_queue_noxmerges(q)  \
+        test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
 #define blk_queue_nonrot(q)     test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &(q)->queue_flags)
 #define blk_queue_io_stat(q)    test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT, &(q)->queue_flags)
 #define blk_queue_flushing(q)   ((q)->ordseq)