tree 1b22a33b78bafcfca8eb7509b7104eaff3b0ab99
parent a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6
author Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> 1372447947 +0200
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 1372447947 +0200

block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available

In case a device has three tags available we still reserve two of them
for sync IO. That leaves only a single tag for async IO such as
writeback from flusher thread which results in poor performance.

Allow async IO to consume two tags in case queue has three tag availabe
to get a decent async write performance.

This patch improves streaming write performance on a machine with such disk
from ~21 MB/s to ~52 MB/s. Also postmark throughput in presence of
streaming writer improves from 8 to 12 transactions per second so sync
IO doesn't seem to be harmed in presence of heavy async writer.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>