block: Add support for reinsert a dispatched req Date Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:36:54 +0200

Add support for reinserting a dispatched request back to the
scheduler's internal data structures.
This capability is used by the device driver when it chooses to
interrupt the current request transmission and execute another (more
urgent) pending request. For example: interrupting long write in order
to handle pending read. The device driver re-inserts the
remaining write request back to the scheduler, to be rescheduled
for transmission later on.

Add API for verifying whether the current scheduler
supports reinserting requests mechanism. If reinsert mechanism isn't
supported by the scheduler, this code path will never be activated.

Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: Add API for urgent request handling Date Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:36:55 +0200

This patch add support in block & elevator layers for handling
urgent requests. The decision if a request is urgent or not is taken
by the scheduler. Urgent request notification is passed to the underlying
block device driver (eMMC for example). Block device driver may decide to
interrupt the currently running low priority request to serve the new
urgent request. By doing so READ latency is greatly reduced in read&write
collision scenarios.

Note that if the current scheduler doesn't implement the urgent request
mechanism, this code path is never activated.

Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: urgent request: remove unnecessary urgent marking

An urgent request is marked by the scheduler in rq->cmd_flags with the
REQ_URGENT flag. There is no need to add an additional marking by
the block layer.

Change-Id: I05d5e9539d2f6c1bfa80240b0671db197a5d3b3f
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	block/test-iosched.c