From 06426adf072bca62ac31ea396ff2159a34f276c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:01:59 -0700 Subject: blk-mq: implement hybrid poll mode for sync O_DIRECT This patch enables a hybrid polling mode. Instead of polling after IO submission, we can induce an artificial delay, and then poll after that. For example, if the IO is presumed to complete in 8 usecs from now, we can sleep for 4 usecs, wake up, and then do our polling. This still puts a sleep/wakeup cycle in the IO path, but instead of the wakeup happening after the IO has completed, it'll happen before. With this hybrid scheme, we can achieve big latency reductions while still using the same (or less) amount of CPU. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Tested-By: Stephen Bates Reviewed-By: Stephen Bates --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index bab18ee5810d..37ed4ea705c8 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ struct request_queue { unsigned int request_fn_active; unsigned int rq_timeout; + unsigned int poll_nsec; struct timer_list timeout; struct work_struct timeout_work; struct list_head timeout_list; -- cgit v1.2.3-71-gd317