Current seeky detection is based on average seek lenght.
This is suboptimal, since the average will not distinguish between:
* a process doing medium sized seeks
* a process doing some sequential requests interleaved with larger seeks
and even a medium seek can take lot of time, if the requested sector
happens to be behind the disk head in the rotation (50% probability).

Therefore, we change the seeky queue detection to work as follows:
* each request can be classified as sequential if it is very close to
  the current head position, i.e. it is likely in the disk cache (disks
  usually read more data than requested, and put it in cache for
  subsequent reads). Otherwise, the request is classified as seeky.
* an history window of the last 32 requests is kept, storing the
  classification result.
* A queue is marked as seeky if more than 1/8 of the last 32 requests
  were seeky.

This patch fixes a regression reported by Yanmin, on mmap 64k random
reads.
Reported-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

On 64 bit builds when CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=n (the default) this removes 8
bytes of padding from structure io_context and drops its size from 72 to
64 bytes, so needing one fewer cachelines and allowing more objects per
slab in it's kmem_cache.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>

----
patch against 2.6.33
compiled & test on x86_64 AMDX2
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The block layer calling convention is blk_queue_<limit name>.
blk_queue_max_sectors predates this practice, leading to some confusion.
Rename the function to appropriately reflect that its intended use is to
set max_hw_sectors.

Also introduce a temporary wrapper for backwards compability.  This can
be removed after the merge window is closed.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Add a BLK_ prefix to block layer constants.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

blk_queue_max_hw_sectors is no longer called by any subsystem and can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Clarify blk_queue_max_sectors and update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

There's no need to take css reference here, for the caller
has already called rcu_read_lock() to prevent cgroup from
being removed.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Conflicts:
	include/linux/blkdev.h
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

If radix_tree_preload is failed in ima_inode_alloc, we don't need
radix_tree_preload_end because kernel is alread preempt enabled
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

* 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6:
  parisc: Set PCI CLS early in boot.

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Fix broken sn2 build

Set the PCI CLS early in the boot process to prevent
device failures. In pcibios_set_master use the new
pci_cache_line_size instead of a hard-coded value.
Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
  microblaze: Fix out_le32() macro
  microblaze: Fix cache loop function for cache range

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Revert "block: improve queue_should_plug() by looking at IO depths"

Trailing semicolon causes compilation involving out_le32() to fail.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>

I create wrong asm code but none test shows that this part of code is wrong.
I am not convinces that were good idea to create asm optimized macros
for caches. The reason is that there is not optimization with previous code
that's why make sense to add old code and do some benchmarking which
functions are faster.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>

Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert pktcdvd to
use bio lists instead of its own private bio list implementation.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net: bug fix for vlan + gro issue
  tc35815: Remove a wrong netif_wake_queue() call which triggers BUG_ON
  cdc_ether: new PID for Ericsson C3607w to the whitelist (resubmit)
  IPv6: better document max_addresses parameter
  MAINTAINERS: update mv643xx_eth maintenance status
  e1000: Fix DMA mapping error handling on RX
  iwlwifi: sanity check before counting number of tfds can be free
  iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds in queue
  iwlwifi: set HT flags after channel in rxon

Traffic (tcp) doesnot start on a vlan interface when gro is enabled.
Even the tcp handshake was not taking place.
This is because, the eth_type_trans call before the netif_receive_skb
in napi_gro_finish() resets the skb->dev to napi->dev from the previously
set vlan netdev interface. This causes the ip_route_input to drop the
incoming packet considering it as a packet coming from a martian source.

I could repro this on 2.6.32.7 (stable) and 2.6.33-rc7.
With this fix, the traffic starts and the test runs fine on both vlan
and non-vlan interfaces.

CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI: Be in TS_POLLING state during mwait based C-state entry
  ACPI: Fix regression where _PPC is not read at boot even when ignore_ppc=0
  acer-wmi: Respect current backlight level when loading

* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm/vmwgfx: Fix queries if no dma buffer thrashing is occuring.
  drm/nv50: fix vram ptes on IGPs to point at stolen system memory
  drm/nv50: fix instmem binding on IGPs to point at stolen system memory
  drm/nv50: improve vram page table construction
  drm/nv50: more efficient clearing of gpu page table entries
  drm/nv50: make nv50_mem_vm_{bind,unbind} operate only on vram
  drm/nouveau: Fix up pre-nv17 analog load detection.

Revert the change made to arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c by commit
204fba4a as it breaks the build.

Fixing the build the b94b0808 way
breaks xpc because genksyms then fails to generate an CRC for
per_cpu____sn_cnodeid_to_nasid because of limitations in the
generic genksyms code.
Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The netif_wake_queue() is called correctly (i.e. only on !txfull
condition) from txdone routine.  So Unconditional call to the
netif_wake_queue() here is wrong.  This might cause calling of
start_xmit routine on txfull state and trigger BUG_ON.

This bug does not happen when NAPI disabled.  After txdone there
must be at least one free tx slot.  But with NAPI, this is not
true anymore and the BUG_ON can hits on heavy load.

In this driver NAPI was enabled on 2.6.33-rc1 so this is
regression from 2.6.32 kernel.
Reported-by: Ralf Roesch <ralf.roesch@rw-gmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds a new vid/pid to the cdc_ether whitelist.

Device added:
- Ericsson Mobile Broadband variant C3607w
Signed-off-by: Torgny Johansson <torgny.johansson@gmail.com>

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Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >From ip-sysctl.txt file in kernel documentation I can see following description
>> for max_addresses:
>> max_addresses - INTEGER
>>         Number of maximum addresses per interface.  0 disables limitation.
>>         It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
>>         be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
>>         autoconfigured addresses.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> If this parameter applies only for auto-configured IP addressed, please state
>> it more clearly in docs or rename the parameter to show that it refers to
>> auto-configuration.

It did mention autoconfigured in the text, but the below makes it more obvious.

More clearly document IPv6 max_addresses parameter.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I am no longer with Marvell.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Check for error return from pci_map_single/pci_map_page and clean up.

With this and the previous patch the driver was able to handle a significant
percentage of errors (I set the fault injection rate to 10% and could still
download large files at a reasonable speed).
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert
generic_make_request to use bio lists instead of its own private bio
list implementation.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This reverts commit fb1e7538.

"Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question
causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from
200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec.

Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the
offending commit.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/blkdev.h
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

'make headers_check' began to fail after cciss_defs.h was introduced in:
   429c42c9

usr/include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h:6: included file 'linux/cciss_defs.h' is not exported

Fix this by exporting cciss_defs.h
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Intercept query commands and apply relocations to their guest pointers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

* 'nouveau/for-airlied' of ../drm-nouveau-next:
  drm/nv50: fix vram ptes on IGPs to point at stolen system memory
  drm/nv50: fix instmem binding on IGPs to point at stolen system memory
  drm/nv50: improve vram page table construction
  drm/nv50: more efficient clearing of gpu page table entries
  drm/nv50: make nv50_mem_vm_{bind,unbind} operate only on vram
  drm/nouveau: Fix up pre-nv17 analog load detection.

* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Fix 128MB RAM support
  MIPS: Highmem: Fix build error

Merge branch 'parisc/tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland

* 'parisc/tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
  Revert "parisc: HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK"