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<title>linux.git/block/blk-core.c, branch v4.10.1</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T21:26:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T21:26:24+00:00</published>
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Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Adam added opt-in ATA command priority support.

 - There are machines which hide multiple nvme devices behind an ahci
   BAR. Dan Williams proposed a solution to force-switch the mode but
   deemed too hackishd. People are gonna discuss the proper way to
   handle the situation in nvme standard meetings. For now, detect and
   warn about the situation.

 - Low level driver specific changes.

Christoph Hellwig pipes in about the hidden nvme warning:
 "I wish that was the case. We've pretty much agreed that we'll want to
  implement it as a virtual PCIe root bridge, similar to Intels other
  'innovation' VMD that we work around that way.

  But Intel management has apparently decided that they don't want to
  spend more cycles on this now that Lenovo has an optional BIOS that
  doesn't force this broken mode anymore, and no one outside of Intel
  has enough information to implement something like this.

  So for now I guess this warning is it, until Intel reconsideres and
  spends resources on fixing up the damage their Chipset people caused"

* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata:
  ahci: warn about remapped NVMe devices
  ahci-remap.h: add ahci remapping definitions
  nvme: move NVMe class code to pci_ids.h
  pata: imx: support controller modes up to PIO4
  pata: imx: add support of setting timings for PIO modes
  pata: imx: set controller PIO mode with .set_piomode callback
  pata: imx: sort headers out
  ata: set ncq_prio_enabled iff device has support
  ata: ATA Command Priority Disabled By Default
  ata: Enabling ATA Command Priorities
  block: Add iocontext priority to request
  ahci: qoriq: added ls1046a platform support
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Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Adam added opt-in ATA command priority support.

 - There are machines which hide multiple nvme devices behind an ahci
   BAR. Dan Williams proposed a solution to force-switch the mode but
   deemed too hackishd. People are gonna discuss the proper way to
   handle the situation in nvme standard meetings. For now, detect and
   warn about the situation.

 - Low level driver specific changes.

Christoph Hellwig pipes in about the hidden nvme warning:
 "I wish that was the case. We've pretty much agreed that we'll want to
  implement it as a virtual PCIe root bridge, similar to Intels other
  'innovation' VMD that we work around that way.

  But Intel management has apparently decided that they don't want to
  spend more cycles on this now that Lenovo has an optional BIOS that
  doesn't force this broken mode anymore, and no one outside of Intel
  has enough information to implement something like this.

  So for now I guess this warning is it, until Intel reconsideres and
  spends resources on fixing up the damage their Chipset people caused"

* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata:
  ahci: warn about remapped NVMe devices
  ahci-remap.h: add ahci remapping definitions
  nvme: move NVMe class code to pci_ids.h
  pata: imx: support controller modes up to PIO4
  pata: imx: add support of setting timings for PIO modes
  pata: imx: set controller PIO mode with .set_piomode callback
  pata: imx: sort headers out
  ata: set ncq_prio_enabled iff device has support
  ata: ATA Command Priority Disabled By Default
  ata: Enabling ATA Command Priorities
  block: Add iocontext priority to request
  ahci: qoriq: added ls1046a platform support
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<entry>
<title>block: improve handling of the magic discard payload</title>
<updated>2016-12-09T15:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-08T22:20:32+00:00</published>
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Instead of allocating a single unused biovec for discard requests, send
them down without any payload.  Instead we allow the driver to add a
"special" payload using a biovec embedded into struct request (unioned
over other fields never used while in the driver), and overloading
the number of segments for this case.

This has a couple of advantages:

 - we don't have to allocate the bio_vec
 - the amount of special casing for discard requests in the block
   layer is significantly reduced
 - using this same scheme for other request types is trivial,
   which will be important for implementing the new WRITE_ZEROES
   op on devices where it actually requires a payload (e.g. SCSI)
 - we can get rid of playing games with the request length, as
   we'll never touch it and completions will work just fine
 - it will allow us to support ranged discard operations in the
   future by merging non-contiguous discard bios into a single
   request
 - last but not least it removes a lot of code

This patch is the common base for my WIP series for ranges discards and to
remove discard_zeroes_data in favor of always using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES,
so it would be good to get it in quickly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Instead of allocating a single unused biovec for discard requests, send
them down without any payload.  Instead we allow the driver to add a
"special" payload using a biovec embedded into struct request (unioned
over other fields never used while in the driver), and overloading
the number of segments for this case.

This has a couple of advantages:

 - we don't have to allocate the bio_vec
 - the amount of special casing for discard requests in the block
   layer is significantly reduced
 - using this same scheme for other request types is trivial,
   which will be important for implementing the new WRITE_ZEROES
   op on devices where it actually requires a payload (e.g. SCSI)
 - we can get rid of playing games with the request length, as
   we'll never touch it and completions will work just fine
 - it will allow us to support ranged discard operations in the
   future by merging non-contiguous discard bios into a single
   request
 - last but not least it removes a lot of code

This patch is the common base for my WIP series for ranges discards and to
remove discard_zeroes_data in favor of always using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES,
so it would be good to get it in quickly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: fix unintended fallthrough in generic_make_request_checks()</title>
<updated>2016-12-05T14:54:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolai Stange</name>
<email>nicstange@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-04T13:56:39+00:00</published>
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Since commit e73c23ff736e ("block: add async variant of
blkdev_issue_zeroout") messages like the following show up:

  EXT4-fs (dm-1): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 2368848 at
                  logical offset 0 with max blocks 1 with error 95
  EXT4-fs (dm-1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost

Due to the following fallthrough introduced with
commit 2d253440b5af ("block: Define zoned block device operations"),
generic_make_request_checks() would accept a REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME bio only
if the block device supports "write same" *and* is a zoned one:

  switch (bio_op(bio)) {
  [...]
  case REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME:
        if (!bdev_write_same(bio-&gt;bi_bdev))
                goto not_supported;
  case REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT:
  case REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET:
                if (!bdev_is_zoned(bio-&gt;bi_bdev))
                        goto not_supported;
                break;
  [...]
  }

Thus, although the bio setup as done by __blkdev_issue_write_same() from
commit e73c23ff736e ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
would succeed, its actual submission would not, resulting in the
EOPNOTSUPP == 95.

Fix this by removing the fallthrough which, due to the lack of an explicit
comment, seems to be unintended anyway.

Fixes: e73c23ff736e ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Fixes: 2d253440b5af ("block: Define zoned block device operations")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Since commit e73c23ff736e ("block: add async variant of
blkdev_issue_zeroout") messages like the following show up:

  EXT4-fs (dm-1): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 2368848 at
                  logical offset 0 with max blocks 1 with error 95
  EXT4-fs (dm-1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost

Due to the following fallthrough introduced with
commit 2d253440b5af ("block: Define zoned block device operations"),
generic_make_request_checks() would accept a REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME bio only
if the block device supports "write same" *and* is a zoned one:

  switch (bio_op(bio)) {
  [...]
  case REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME:
        if (!bdev_write_same(bio-&gt;bi_bdev))
                goto not_supported;
  case REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT:
  case REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET:
                if (!bdev_is_zoned(bio-&gt;bi_bdev))
                        goto not_supported;
                break;
  [...]
  }

Thus, although the bio setup as done by __blkdev_issue_write_same() from
commit e73c23ff736e ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
would succeed, its actual submission would not, resulting in the
EOPNOTSUPP == 95.

Fix this by removing the fallthrough which, due to the lack of an explicit
comment, seems to be unintended anyway.

Fixes: e73c23ff736e ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Fixes: 2d253440b5af ("block: Define zoned block device operations")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES</title>
<updated>2016-12-01T14:58:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chaitanya Kulkarni</name>
<email>chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-30T20:28:59+00:00</published>
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This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: apply blk_partition_remap to REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET</title>
<updated>2016-11-21T22:08:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaun Tancheff</name>
<email>shaun@tancheff.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-21T21:52:23+00:00</published>
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If a ZBC device is partitioned and operations are performed on the partition
the zone information is rebased to the partition, however the zone reset
is not mapped from the partition to device as are other operations.

This causes the API (report zones / reset zone) to be unbalanced in this
regard. Checking for the zone reset op code explicitly will balance the
API.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff &lt;shaun.tancheff@seagate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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If a ZBC device is partitioned and operations are performed on the partition
the zone information is rebased to the partition, however the zone reset
is not mapped from the partition to device as are other operations.

This causes the API (report zones / reset zone) to be unbalanced in this
regard. Checking for the zone reset op code explicitly will balance the
API.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff &lt;shaun.tancheff@seagate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: deal with stale req count of plug list</title>
<updated>2016-11-16T15:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-16T10:07:05+00:00</published>
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In both legacy and mq path, req count of plug list is computed
before allocating request, so the number can be stale when falling
back to slept allocation, also the new introduced wbt can sleep
too.

This patch deals with the case by checking if plug list becomes
empty, and fixes the KASAN report of 'BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds'
which is introduced by Shaohua's patches of dispatching big request.

Fixes: 600271d900002(blk-mq: immediately dispatch big size request)
Fixes: 50d24c34403c6(block: immediately dispatch big size request)
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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In both legacy and mq path, req count of plug list is computed
before allocating request, so the number can be stale when falling
back to slept allocation, also the new introduced wbt can sleep
too.

This patch deals with the case by checking if plug list becomes
empty, and fixes the KASAN report of 'BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds'
which is introduced by Shaohua's patches of dispatching big request.

Fixes: 600271d900002(blk-mq: immediately dispatch big size request)
Fixes: 50d24c34403c6(block: immediately dispatch big size request)
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: move poll code to blk-mq</title>
<updated>2016-11-11T20:40:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-04T15:34:34+00:00</published>
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The poll code is blk-mq specific, let's move it to blk-mq.c. This
is a prep patch for improving the polling code.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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The poll code is blk-mq specific, let's move it to blk-mq.c. This
is a prep patch for improving the polling code.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: hook up writeback throttling</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T20:53:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-09T19:38:14+00:00</published>
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Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot
more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity.
Background writeback should be, by definition, background
activity. The fact that we flush huge bundles of it at the time
means that it potentially has heavy impacts on foreground workloads,
which isn't ideal. We can't easily limit the sizes of writes that
we do, since that would impact file system layout in the presence
of delayed allocation. So just throttle back buffered writeback,
unless someone is waiting for it.

The algorithm for when to throttle takes its inspiration in the
CoDel networking scheduling algorithm. Like CoDel, blk-wb monitors
the minimum latencies of requests over a window of time. In that
window of time, if the minimum latency of any request exceeds a
given target, then a scale count is incremented and the queue depth
is shrunk. The next monitoring window is shrunk accordingly. Unlike
CoDel, if we hit a window that exhibits good behavior, then we
simply increment the scale count and re-calculate the limits for that
scale value. This prevents us from oscillating between a
close-to-ideal value and max all the time, instead remaining in the
windows where we get good behavior.

Unlike CoDel, blk-wb allows the scale count to to negative. This
happens if we primarily have writes going on. Unlike positive
scale counts, this doesn't change the size of the monitoring window.
When the heavy writers finish, blk-bw quickly snaps back to it's
stable state of a zero scale count.

The patch registers a sysfs entry, 'wb_lat_usec'. This sets the latency
target to me met. It defaults to 2 msec for non-rotational storage, and
75 msec for rotational storage. Setting this value to '0' disables
blk-wb. Generally, a user would not have to touch this setting.

We don't enable WBT on devices that are managed with CFQ, and have
a non-root block cgroup attached. If we have a proportional share setup
on this particular disk, then the wbt throttling will interfere with
that. We don't have a strong need for wbt for that case, since we will
rely on CFQ doing that for us.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot
more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity.
Background writeback should be, by definition, background
activity. The fact that we flush huge bundles of it at the time
means that it potentially has heavy impacts on foreground workloads,
which isn't ideal. We can't easily limit the sizes of writes that
we do, since that would impact file system layout in the presence
of delayed allocation. So just throttle back buffered writeback,
unless someone is waiting for it.

The algorithm for when to throttle takes its inspiration in the
CoDel networking scheduling algorithm. Like CoDel, blk-wb monitors
the minimum latencies of requests over a window of time. In that
window of time, if the minimum latency of any request exceeds a
given target, then a scale count is incremented and the queue depth
is shrunk. The next monitoring window is shrunk accordingly. Unlike
CoDel, if we hit a window that exhibits good behavior, then we
simply increment the scale count and re-calculate the limits for that
scale value. This prevents us from oscillating between a
close-to-ideal value and max all the time, instead remaining in the
windows where we get good behavior.

Unlike CoDel, blk-wb allows the scale count to to negative. This
happens if we primarily have writes going on. Unlike positive
scale counts, this doesn't change the size of the monitoring window.
When the heavy writers finish, blk-bw quickly snaps back to it's
stable state of a zero scale count.

The patch registers a sysfs entry, 'wb_lat_usec'. This sets the latency
target to me met. It defaults to 2 msec for non-rotational storage, and
75 msec for rotational storage. Setting this value to '0' disables
blk-wb. Generally, a user would not have to touch this setting.

We don't enable WBT on devices that are managed with CFQ, and have
a non-root block cgroup attached. If we have a proportional share setup
on this particular disk, then the wbt throttling will interfere with
that. We don't have a strong need for wbt for that case, since we will
rely on CFQ doing that for us.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add scalable completion tracking of requests</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T20:53:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-08T04:32:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=cf43e6be865a582ba66ee4747ae27a0513f6bba1'/>
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For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
state.

The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.

Add sysfs files to display the stats.

The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel
users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue
flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of
the stats files, that is something we could add as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
state.

The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.

Add sysfs files to display the stats.

The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel
users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue
flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of
the stats files, that is something we could add as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: immediately dispatch big size request</title>
<updated>2016-11-04T04:00:36+00:00</updated>
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<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shli@fb.com</email>
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<published>2016-11-04T00:03:53+00:00</published>
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Currently block plug holds up to 16 non-mergeable requests. This makes
sense if the request size is small, eg, reduce lock contention. But if
request size is big enough, we don't need to worry about lock
contention. Holding such request makes no sense and it lows the disk
utilization.

In practice, this improves 10% throughput for my raid5 sequential write
workload.

The size (128k) is arbitrary right now, but it makes sure lock
contention is small. This probably could be more intelligent, eg, check
average request size holded. Since this is mainly for sequential IO,
probably not worthy.

V2: check the last request instead of the first request, so as long as
there is one big size request we flush the plug.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Currently block plug holds up to 16 non-mergeable requests. This makes
sense if the request size is small, eg, reduce lock contention. But if
request size is big enough, we don't need to worry about lock
contention. Holding such request makes no sense and it lows the disk
utilization.

In practice, this improves 10% throughput for my raid5 sequential write
workload.

The size (128k) is arbitrary right now, but it makes sure lock
contention is small. This probably could be more intelligent, eg, check
average request size holded. Since this is mainly for sequential IO,
probably not worthy.

V2: check the last request instead of the first request, so as long as
there is one big size request we flush the plug.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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