block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices

This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion
mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of
doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated
softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll
handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will
stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget
from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back
to interrupt completion mode.

This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support
sold separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 35e7df1e9f30..edd8d5c90394 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ enum
         NET_TX_SOFTIRQ,
         NET_RX_SOFTIRQ,
         BLOCK_SOFTIRQ,
+        BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ,
         TASKLET_SOFTIRQ,
         SCHED_SOFTIRQ,
         HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ,