kernel_optimize_test/block
Jeff Moyer 30e2bc08b2 Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
This reverts commit 34b48db66e.
That commit caused performance regressions for streaming I/O
workloads on a number of different storage devices, from
SATA disks to external RAID arrays.  It also managed to
trip up some buggy firmware in at least one drive, causing
data corruption.

The next patch will bump the default max_sectors_kb value to
1280, which will accommodate a 10-data-disk stripe write
with chunk size 128k.  In the testing I've done using iozone,
fio, and aio-stress, a value of 1280 does not show a big
performance difference from 512.  This will hopefully still
help the software RAID setup that Christoph saw the original
performance gains with while still not regressing other
storage configurations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 13:21:13 -07:00
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partitions Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-02-12 14:13:23 -08:00
bio-integrity.c block: add a bi_error field to struct bio 2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
bio.c block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs() 2015-08-13 12:32:04 -06:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: fix blkcg_policy_data allocation bug 2015-07-09 14:41:11 -06:00
blk-core.c block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios 2015-08-13 12:31:33 -06:00
blk-exec.c block: move PM request support to IDE 2015-05-05 13:40:42 -06:00
blk-flush.c blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request 2015-08-15 09:45:21 -06:00
blk-integrity.c writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h 2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
blk-ioc.c block: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw() 2014-02-18 12:21:26 -08:00
blk-iopoll.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
blk-lib.c block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same} 2015-08-13 12:31:47 -06:00
blk-map.c block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpers 2015-07-29 08:55:20 -06:00
blk-merge.c block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely 2015-08-13 12:31:57 -06:00
blk-mq-cpu.c blk-mq: add file comments and update copyright notices 2014-05-28 10:15:41 -06:00
blk-mq-cpumap.c sched/topology: Rename topology_thread_cpumask() to topology_sibling_cpumask() 2015-05-27 15:22:15 +02:00
blk-mq-sysfs.c blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending' 2015-08-15 09:45:19 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.c blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request 2015-08-15 09:45:21 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.h blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request 2015-08-15 09:45:21 -06:00
blk-mq.c blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request 2015-08-15 09:45:21 -06:00
blk-mq.h blk-mq: release mq's kobjects in blk_release_queue() 2015-01-29 08:30:51 -08:00
blk-settings.c Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap" 2015-08-18 13:21:13 -07:00
blk-softirq.c block: fix regression with block enabled tagging 2014-04-09 21:54:06 -06:00
blk-sysfs.c block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios 2015-08-13 12:31:33 -06:00
blk-tag.c block: support different tag allocation policy 2015-01-23 14:15:46 -07:00
blk-throttle.c blkcg: move block/blk-cgroup.h to include/linux/blk-cgroup.h 2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
blk-timeout.c blk-mq: Allow requests to never expire 2015-01-08 08:59:01 -07:00
blk.h blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request 2015-08-15 09:45:21 -06:00
bounce.c block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpers 2015-07-29 08:55:20 -06:00
bsg-lib.c bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue() 2012-12-06 14:33:02 +01:00
bsg.c block: Simplify bsg complete all 2015-02-04 09:57:52 -07:00
cfq-iosched.c Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
cmdline-parser.c block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol 2014-01-21 20:18:26 -08:00
compat_ioctl.c block, bdi: an active gendisk always has a request_queue associated with it 2014-09-08 10:00:35 -06:00
deadline-iosched.c block: Stop abusing csd.list for fifo_time 2014-02-24 14:46:32 -08:00
elevator.c Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
genhd.c block: partition: convert percpu ref 2015-07-17 08:41:53 -06:00
ioctl.c block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in blkdev_reread_part() 2015-05-20 09:05:45 -06:00
ioprio.c block: Fix computation of merged request priority 2014-10-31 08:30:43 -06:00
Kconfig block: Add T10 Protection Information functions 2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00
Kconfig.iosched blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Makefile block: Add T10 Protection Information functions 2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00
noop-iosched.c elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching 2013-07-03 13:25:24 +02:00
partition-generic.c block: partition: convert percpu ref 2015-07-17 08:41:53 -06:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: fix bogus EFAULT error from SG_IO ioctl 2015-06-27 11:43:34 -06:00
t10-pi.c block: Add T10 Protection Information functions 2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00