For an interface to support blocking for IOs, it must call
io_schedule() instead of schedule(). This makes it tedious to add IO
blocking to existing interfaces as the switching between schedule()
and io_schedule() is often buried deep.
As we already have a way to mark the task as IO scheduling, this can
be made easier by separating out io_schedule() into multiple steps so
that IO schedule preparation can be performed before invoking a
blocking interface and the actual accounting happens inside the
scheduler.
io_schedule_timeout() does the following three things prior to calling
schedule_timeout().
1. Mark the task as scheduling for IO.
2. Flush out plugged IOs.
3. Account the IO scheduling.
done close to the actual scheduling. This patch moves #3 into the
scheduler so that later patches can separate out preparation and
finish steps from io_schedule().
Patch-originally-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: jack@suse.com
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: mingbo@fb.com
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207204841.GA22296@htj.duckdns.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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