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ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_add_chrdev_write_request

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Refrain from adding more write requests to the pipeline and queue them
directly on the device's request queue instead.

[bart: re-do for minimal behavior changes]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Borislav Petkov 2008-04-27 15:38:25 +02:00 committed by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
parent f64eee7bb2
commit 97c566cebe
1 changed files with 2 additions and 53 deletions
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drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
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@ -2202,28 +2202,16 @@ static void idetape_wait_first_stage(ide_drive_t *drive)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tape->lock, flags);
}
/*
* Try to add a character device originated write request to our pipeline. In
* case we don't succeed, we revert to non-pipelined operation mode for this
* request. In order to accomplish that, we
*
* 1. Try to allocate a new pipeline stage.
* 2. If we can't, wait for more and more requests to be serviced and try again
* each time.
* 3. If we still can't allocate a stage, fallback to non-pipelined operation
* mode for this request.
*/
/* Queue up a character device originated write request. */
static int idetape_add_chrdev_write_request(ide_drive_t *drive, int blocks)
{
idetape_tape_t *tape = drive->driver_data;
idetape_stage_t *new_stage;
unsigned long flags;
struct request *rq;
debug_log(DBG_CHRDEV, "Enter %s\n", __func__);
/* Attempt to allocate a new stage. Beware possible race conditions. */
while ((new_stage = idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape)) == NULL) {
while (1) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&tape->lock, flags);
if (test_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_PIPELINE_ACTIVE, &tape->flags)) {
idetape_wait_for_request(drive, tape->active_data_rq);
@ -2234,49 +2222,10 @@ static int idetape_add_chrdev_write_request(ide_drive_t *drive, int blocks)
if (test_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_PIPELINE_ACTIVE,
&tape->flags))
continue;
/*
* The machine is short on memory. Fallback to non-
* pipelined operation mode for this request.
*/
return idetape_queue_rw_tail(drive, REQ_IDETAPE_WRITE,
blocks, tape->merge_stage->bh);
}
}
rq = &new_stage->rq;
idetape_init_rq(rq, REQ_IDETAPE_WRITE);
/* Doesn't actually matter - We always assume sequential access */
rq->sector = tape->first_frame;
rq->current_nr_sectors = blocks;
rq->nr_sectors = blocks;
idetape_switch_buffers(tape, new_stage);
idetape_add_stage_tail(drive, new_stage);
tape->pipeline_head++;
idetape_calculate_speeds(drive);
/*
* Estimate whether the tape has stopped writing by checking if our
* write pipeline is currently empty. If we are not writing anymore,
* wait for the pipeline to be almost completely full (90%) before
* starting to service requests, so that we will be able to keep up with
* the higher speeds of the tape.
*/
if (!test_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_PIPELINE_ACTIVE, &tape->flags)) {
if (tape->nr_stages >= tape->max_stages * 9 / 10 ||
tape->nr_stages >= tape->max_stages -
tape->uncontrolled_pipeline_head_speed * 3 * 1024 /
tape->blk_size) {
tape->measure_insert_time = 1;
tape->insert_time = jiffies;
tape->insert_size = 0;
tape->insert_speed = 0;
idetape_plug_pipeline(drive);
}
}
if (test_and_clear_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_PIPELINE_ERR, &tape->flags))
/* Return a deferred error */
return -EIO;
return blocks;
}
/*