| commit | e3ba9ae58a5599226e3976b29c8093041ae7c332 | |
| author | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | |
| Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:42:41 +0000 (25 11:42 +0200) | ||
| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | |
| Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:56:19 +0000 (9 08:56 +0200) | ||
| tree | 5e8a7c0c1b675e19fa6209489479fe9b799a1b3e | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | f7d7b7a7a3db6526a84ea755c1c54a051e9a52de | commitdiff |
block: reserve some tags just for sync IO
By only allowing async IO to consume 3/4 ths of the tag depth, we
always have slots free to serve sync IO. This is important to avoid
having writes fill the entire tag queue, thus starving reads.
Original patch and idea from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
By only allowing async IO to consume 3/4 ths of the tag depth, we
always have slots free to serve sync IO. This is important to avoid
having writes fill the entire tag queue, thus starving reads.
Original patch and idea from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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