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block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions

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There are two reasons for doing this:

- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
  are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
  should contribute to the random pool in the first place.

- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to
switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there
should be no functional changes from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jens Axboe 2010-06-09 10:42:09 +02:00
parent 841fdffdd3
commit e2e1a148bc
3 changed files with 34 additions and 2 deletions
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3
block/blk-core.c
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@ -2111,7 +2111,8 @@ static bool blk_update_bidi_request(struct request *rq, int error,
blk_update_request(rq->next_rq, error, bidi_bytes))
return true;
add_disk_randomness(rq->rq_disk);
if (blk_queue_add_random(rq->q))
add_disk_randomness(rq->rq_disk);
return false;
}

28
block/blk-sysfs.c
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@ -250,6 +250,27 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count)
return ret;
}
static ssize_t queue_random_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
{
return queue_var_show(blk_queue_add_random(q), page);
}
static ssize_t queue_random_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page,
size_t count)
{
unsigned long val;
ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&val, page, count);
spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
if (val)
queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, q);
else
queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, q);
spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
return ret;
}
static ssize_t queue_iostats_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
{
return queue_var_show(blk_queue_io_stat(q), page);
@ -374,6 +395,12 @@ static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_iostats_entry = {
.store = queue_iostats_store,
};
static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_random_entry = {
.attr = {.name = "add_random", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR },
.show = queue_random_show,
.store = queue_random_store,
};
static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = {
&queue_requests_entry.attr,
&queue_ra_entry.attr,
@ -394,6 +421,7 @@ static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = {
&queue_nomerges_entry.attr,
&queue_rq_affinity_entry.attr,
&queue_iostats_entry.attr,
&queue_random_entry.attr,
NULL,
};

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include/linux/blkdev.h
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@ -467,11 +467,13 @@ struct request_queue
#define QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT 15 /* do IO stats */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD 16 /* supports DISCARD */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES 17 /* No extended merges */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM 18 /* Contributes to random pool */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP))
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM))
static inline int queue_is_locked(struct request_queue *q)
{
@ -596,6 +598,7 @@ enum {
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nonrot(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_io_stat(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_add_random(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_flushing(q) ((q)->ordseq)
#define blk_queue_stackable(q) \
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE, &(q)->queue_flags)