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<title>linux.git/include/linux/bio.h, branch v2.6.27-rc4</title>
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<title>block: integrity cleanups</title>
<updated>2008-07-03T11:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2008-06-18T08:15:02+00:00</published>
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- No need to check for NULL bio, we'll get an immediate oops anyway.
- Make bio_integrity() a proper function.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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- No need to check for NULL bio, we'll get an immediate oops anyway.
- Make bio_integrity() a proper function.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: Block layer data integrity support</title>
<updated>2008-07-03T11:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2008-06-30T18:04:41+00:00</published>
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Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: Globalize bio_set and bio_vec_slab</title>
<updated>2008-07-03T11:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-17T16:59:56+00:00</published>
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Move struct bio_set and biovec_slab definitions to bio.h so they can
be used outside of bio.c.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Move struct bio_set and biovec_slab definitions to bio.h so they can
be used outside of bio.c.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kern</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T07:50:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
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<published>2008-04-25T10:47:50+00:00</published>
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This patch adds bio_copy_kern similar to
bio_copy_user. blk_rq_map_kern uses bio_copy_kern instead of
bio_map_kern if necessary.

bio_copy_kern uses temporary pages and the bi_end_io callback frees
these pages. bio_copy_kern saves the original kernel buffer at
bio-&gt;bi_private it doesn't use something like struct bio_map_data to
store the information about the caller.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This patch adds bio_copy_kern similar to
bio_copy_user. blk_rq_map_kern uses bio_copy_kern instead of
bio_map_kern if necessary.

bio_copy_kern uses temporary pages and the bi_end_io callback frees
these pages. bio_copy_kern saves the original kernel buffer at
bio-&gt;bi_private it doesn't use something like struct bio_map_data to
store the information about the caller.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: convert bio_copy_user to bio_copy_user_iov</title>
<updated>2008-04-21T07:50:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-11T10:56:49+00:00</published>
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This patch enables bio_copy_user to take struct sg_iovec (renamed
bio_copy_user_iov). bio_copy_user uses bio_copy_user_iov internally as
bio_map_user uses bio_map_user_iov.

The major changes are:

- adds sg_iovec array to struct bio_map_data

- adds __bio_copy_iov that copy data between bio and
sg_iovec. bio_copy_user_iov and bio_uncopy_user use it.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This patch enables bio_copy_user to take struct sg_iovec (renamed
bio_copy_user_iov). bio_copy_user uses bio_copy_user_iov internally as
bio_map_user uses bio_map_user_iov.

The major changes are:

- adds sg_iovec array to struct bio_map_data

- adds __bio_copy_iov that copy data between bio and
sg_iovec. bio_copy_user_iov and bio_uncopy_user use it.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/block_dev.c: remove #if 0'ed code</title>
<updated>2008-02-19T09:04:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-18T12:48:32+00:00</published>
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Commit b2e895dbd80c420bfc0937c3729b4afe073b3848 #if 0'ed this code stating:

&lt;--  snip  --&gt;

    [PATCH] revert blockdev direct io back to 2.6.19 version

    Andrew Vasquez is reporting as-iosched oopses and a 65% throughput
    slowdown due to the recent special-casing of direct-io against
    blockdevs.  We don't know why either of these things are occurring.

    The patch minimally reverts us back to the 2.6.19 code for a 2.6.20
    release.

&lt;--  snip  --&gt;

It has since been dead code, and unless someone wants to revive it now
it's time to remove it.

This patch also makes bio_release_pages() static again and removes the
ki_bio_count member from struct kiocb, reverting changes that had been
done for this dead code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk&gt;
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Commit b2e895dbd80c420bfc0937c3729b4afe073b3848 #if 0'ed this code stating:

&lt;--  snip  --&gt;

    [PATCH] revert blockdev direct io back to 2.6.19 version

    Andrew Vasquez is reporting as-iosched oopses and a 65% throughput
    slowdown due to the recent special-casing of direct-io against
    blockdevs.  We don't know why either of these things are occurring.

    The patch minimally reverts us back to the 2.6.19 code for a 2.6.20
    release.

&lt;--  snip  --&gt;

It has since been dead code, and unless someone wants to revive it now
it's time to remove it.

This patch also makes bio_release_pages() static again and removes the
ki_bio_count member from struct kiocb, reverting changes that had been
done for this dead code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support</title>
<updated>2007-10-16T09:03:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2007-09-27T11:01:25+00:00</published>
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This implements functionality to pass down or insert a barrier
in a queue, without having data attached to it. The -&gt;prepare_flush_fn()
infrastructure from data barriers are reused to provide this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This implements functionality to pass down or insert a barrier
in a queue, without having data attached to it. The -&gt;prepare_flush_fn()
infrastructure from data barriers are reused to provide this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T07:25:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-27T10:47:43+00:00</published>
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As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,
the 'size' argument is now redundant.  Remove it.

Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
from bi_size.  So don't do that either.

While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,
the 'size' argument is now redundant.  Remove it.

Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
from bi_size.  So don't do that either.

While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>BLOCK: Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n</title>
<updated>2007-08-11T20:34:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-11T20:34:32+00:00</published>
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Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n as there shouldn't be
compiled code that uses it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n as there shouldn't be
compiled code that uses it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>[BLOCK] Don't pin lots of memory in mempools</title>
<updated>2007-04-30T07:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-02T08:06:42+00:00</published>
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Currently we scale the mempool sizes depending on memory installed
in the machine, except for the bio pool itself which sits at a fixed
256 entry pre-allocation.

There's really no point in "optimizing" this OOM path, we just need
enough preallocated to make progress. A single unit is enough, lets
scale it down to 2 just to be on the safe side.

This patch saves ~150kb of pinned kernel memory on a 32-bit box.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Currently we scale the mempool sizes depending on memory installed
in the machine, except for the bio pool itself which sits at a fixed
256 entry pre-allocation.

There's really no point in "optimizing" this OOM path, we just need
enough preallocated to make progress. A single unit is enough, lets
scale it down to 2 just to be on the safe side.

This patch saves ~150kb of pinned kernel memory on a 32-bit box.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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