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Allow QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT to propagate up the device stack if all
authorMandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:45:56 +0000 (11:45 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:45:56 +0000 (11:45 +1100)
commit4be9ccbd25ca43e8df4cd6d7e27635c18e60db6a
treef2400e92da10102e8a14fbcfe6ac1a1943f4b1c2
parent3ee72ca99288f1de95ec9c570e43f531c8799f06
Allow QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT to propagate up the device stack if all
underlying devices are non-rotational.  Tools like ureadahead will
schedule IOs differently based on the rotational flag.

With this patch, I see boot time go from 7.75 s to 7.46 s on my device.

Suggested-by: J. Richard Barnette <jrbarnette@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
drivers/md/dm-table.c