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<title>linux.git/include/linux/blkdev.h, branch v3.13.3</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>blk-mq: ensure that we set REQ_IO_STAT so diskstats work</title>
<updated>2013-11-19T16:25:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-19T16:25:07+00:00</published>
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If disk stats are enabled on the queue, a request needs to
be marked with REQ_IO_STAT for accounting to be active on
that request. This fixes an issue with virtio-blk not
showing up in /proc/diskstats after the conversion to
blk-mq.

Add QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT, setting stats and same cpu-group
completion on by default.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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If disk stats are enabled on the queue, a request needs to
be marked with REQ_IO_STAT for accounting to be active on
that request. This fixes an issue with virtio-blk not
showing up in /proc/diskstats after the conversion to
blk-mq.

Add QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT, setting stats and same cpu-group
completion on by default.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism</title>
<updated>2013-10-25T10:56:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-24T08:20:05+00:00</published>
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Linux currently has two models for block devices:

- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
  request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
  functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
  management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.

- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
  block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
  driver generally have to manage everything themselves.

With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.

The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.

This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.

blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:

- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
  be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
  to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
  tags, to enable cache hot reuse.

- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
  basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
  if a request happens to fail.

- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
  submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
  desired location.

- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
  to associate a request structure with some driver private
  command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
  and then any request handed to the driver will have the
  required size of memory associated with it.

- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
  gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
  sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
  increases bandwidth.

For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).

Contributions in this patch from the following people:

Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.com&gt;
Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Matias Bjorling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Linux currently has two models for block devices:

- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
  request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
  functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
  management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.

- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
  block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
  driver generally have to manage everything themselves.

With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.

The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.

This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.

blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:

- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
  be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
  to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
  tags, to enable cache hot reuse.

- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
  basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
  if a request happens to fail.

- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
  submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
  desired location.

- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
  to associate a request structure with some driver private
  command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
  and then any request handed to the driver will have the
  required size of memory associated with it.

- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
  gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
  sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
  increases bandwidth.

For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).

Contributions in this patch from the following people:

Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.com&gt;
Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Matias Bjorling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: remove request ref_count</title>
<updated>2013-10-25T10:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-04T13:49:11+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This reference count has been around since before git history, but the only
place where it's used is in blk_execute_rq, and ther it is entirely useless
as it is incremented before submitting the request and decremented in the
end_io handler before waking up the submitter thread.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This reference count has been around since before git history, but the only
place where it's used is in blk_execute_rq, and ther it is entirely useless
as it is incremented before submitting the request and decremented in the
end_io handler before waking up the submitter thread.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: make rq-&gt;cmd_flags be 64-bit</title>
<updated>2013-10-25T10:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-23T10:25:08+00:00</published>
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We have officially run out of flags in a 32-bit space. Extend it
to 64-bit even on 32-bit archs.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We have officially run out of flags in a 32-bit space. Extend it
to 64-bit even on 32-bit archs.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Add nr_bios to block_rq_remap tracepoint</title>
<updated>2013-09-21T19:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jun'ichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-21T19:57:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Adding the number of bios in a remapped request to 'block_rq_remap'
tracepoint.

Request remapper clones bios in a request to track the completion
status of each bio. So the number of bios can be useful information
for investigation.

Related discussions:
  http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2013-August/msg00084.html
  http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2013-September/msg00024.html

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Adding the number of bios in a remapped request to 'block_rq_remap'
tracepoint.

Request remapper clones bios in a request to track the completion
status of each bio. So the number of bios can be useful information
for investigation.

Related discussions:
  http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2013-August/msg00084.html
  http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2013-September/msg00024.html

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00</published>
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq-&gt;datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq-&gt;datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block_device_operations-&gt;release() should return void</title>
<updated>2013-05-07T06:16:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T01:52:57+00:00</published>
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The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: fix max discard sectors limit</title>
<updated>2013-04-24T14:52:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>JBottomley@Parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-24T14:52:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
linux-v3.8-rc1 and later support for plug for blkdev_issue_discard with
commit 0cfbcafcae8b7364b5fa96c2b26ccde7a3a296a9
(block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard )

For example,
1) DISCARD rq-1 with size size 4GB
2) DISCARD rq-2 with size size 1GB

If these 2 discard requests get merged, final request size will be 5GB.

In this case, request's __data_len field may overflow as it can store
max 4GB(unsigned int).

This issue was observed while doing mkfs.f2fs on 5GB SD card:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/292

Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 11370496 (in 512bytes)
Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512
[  257.789764] blk_update_request: bio idx 0 &gt;= vcnt 0

mkfs process gets stuck in D state and I see the following in the dmesg:

[  257.789733] __end_that: dev mmcblk0: type=1, flags=122c8081
[  257.789764]   sector 4194304, nr/cnr 2981888/4294959104
[  257.789764]   bio df3840c0, biotail df3848c0, buffer   (null), len
1526726656
[  257.789764] blk_update_request: bio idx 0 &gt;= vcnt 0
[  257.794921] request botched: dev mmcblk0: type=1, flags=122c8081
[  257.794921]   sector 4194304, nr/cnr 2981888/4294959104
[  257.794921]   bio df3840c0, biotail df3848c0, buffer   (null), len
1526726656

This patch fixes this issue.

Reported-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;namjae.jeon@samsung.com&gt;
Tested-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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linux-v3.8-rc1 and later support for plug for blkdev_issue_discard with
commit 0cfbcafcae8b7364b5fa96c2b26ccde7a3a296a9
(block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard )

For example,
1) DISCARD rq-1 with size size 4GB
2) DISCARD rq-2 with size size 1GB

If these 2 discard requests get merged, final request size will be 5GB.

In this case, request's __data_len field may overflow as it can store
max 4GB(unsigned int).

This issue was observed while doing mkfs.f2fs on 5GB SD card:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/292

Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 11370496 (in 512bytes)
Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512
[  257.789764] blk_update_request: bio idx 0 &gt;= vcnt 0

mkfs process gets stuck in D state and I see the following in the dmesg:

[  257.789733] __end_that: dev mmcblk0: type=1, flags=122c8081
[  257.789764]   sector 4194304, nr/cnr 2981888/4294959104
[  257.789764]   bio df3840c0, biotail df3848c0, buffer   (null), len
1526726656
[  257.789764] blk_update_request: bio idx 0 &gt;= vcnt 0
[  257.794921] request botched: dev mmcblk0: type=1, flags=122c8081
[  257.794921]   sector 4194304, nr/cnr 2981888/4294959104
[  257.794921]   bio df3840c0, biotail df3848c0, buffer   (null), len
1526726656

This patch fixes this issue.

Reported-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;namjae.jeon@samsung.com&gt;
Tested-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add runtime pm helpers</title>
<updated>2013-03-23T04:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Ming</name>
<email>ming.m.lin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-23T03:42:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=6c9546675864f51506af69eca388e5d922942c56'/>
<id>6c9546675864f51506af69eca388e5d922942c56</id>
<content type='text'>
Add runtime pm helper functions:

void blk_pm_runtime_init(struct request_queue *q, struct device *dev)
  - Initialization function for drivers to call.

int blk_pre_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q)
  - If any requests are in the queue, mark last busy and return -EBUSY.
    Otherwise set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDING and return 0.

void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err)
  - If the suspend succeeded then set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.
    Otherwise set it to RPM_ACTIVE and mark last busy.

void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q)
  - Set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_RESUMING.

void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err)
  - If the resume succeeded then set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_ACTIVE
    and call __blk_run_queue, then mark last busy and autosuspend.
    Otherwise set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.

The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&amp;m=133727953625963&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Add runtime pm helper functions:

void blk_pm_runtime_init(struct request_queue *q, struct device *dev)
  - Initialization function for drivers to call.

int blk_pre_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q)
  - If any requests are in the queue, mark last busy and return -EBUSY.
    Otherwise set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDING and return 0.

void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err)
  - If the suspend succeeded then set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.
    Otherwise set it to RPM_ACTIVE and mark last busy.

void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q)
  - Set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_RESUMING.

void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err)
  - If the resume succeeded then set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_ACTIVE
    and call __blk_run_queue, then mark last busy and autosuspend.
    Otherwise set q-&gt;rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.

The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&amp;m=133727953625963&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'blkcg-cfq-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup into for-3.9/core</title>
<updated>2013-01-11T18:53:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2013-01-11T18:53:53+00:00</published>
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Tejun writes:

Hello, Jens.

Please consider pulling from the following branch to receive cfq blkcg
hierarchy support.  The branch is based on top of v3.8-rc2.

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git blkcg-cfq-hierarchy

The patchset was reviewd in the following thread.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/5571
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Tejun writes:

Hello, Jens.

Please consider pulling from the following branch to receive cfq blkcg
hierarchy support.  The branch is based on top of v3.8-rc2.

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git blkcg-cfq-hierarchy

The patchset was reviewd in the following thread.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/5571
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