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Commit 05378940 authored by Boaz Harrosh's avatar Boaz Harrosh Committed by Jens Axboe
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bsg: add support for tail queuing



Currently inherited from sg.c bsg will submit asynchronous request
 at the head-of-the-queue, (using "at_head" set in the call to
 blk_execute_rq_nowait()). This is bad in situation where the queues
 are full, requests will execute out of order, and can cause
 starvation of the first submitted requests.

The sg_io_v4->flags member is used and a bit is allocated to denote the
Q_AT_TAIL. Zero is to queue at_head as before, to be compatible with old
code at the write/read path. SG_IO code path behavior was changed so to
be the same as write/read behavior. SG_IO was very rarely used and breaking
compatibility with it is OK at this stage.

sg_io_hdr at sg.h also has a flags member and uses 3 bits from the first
nibble and one bit from the last nibble. Even though none of these bits
are supported by bsg, The second nibble is allocated for use by bsg. Just
in case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
parent 0061d386
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