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H A Dblk-merge.cf281fb5f Sat Sep 25 05:42:55 CDT 2010 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> block: prevent merges of discard and write requests

Add logic to prevent two I/O requests being merged if
only one of them is a discard. Ditto secure discard.

Without this fix, it is possible for write requests
to transform into discard requests. For example:

Submit bio 1 to discard 8 sectors from sector n
Submit bio 2 to write 8 sectors from sector n + 16
Submit bio 3 to write 8 sectors from sector n + 8

Bio 1 becomes request 1. Bio 2 becomes request 2.
Bio 3 is merged with request 2, and then subsequently
request 2 is merged with request 1 resulting in just
one I/O request which discards all 24 sectors.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

(Moved the checks above the position checks /Jens)

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
f281fb5f Sat Sep 25 05:42:55 CDT 2010 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> block: prevent merges of discard and write requests

Add logic to prevent two I/O requests being merged if
only one of them is a discard. Ditto secure discard.

Without this fix, it is possible for write requests
to transform into discard requests. For example:

Submit bio 1 to discard 8 sectors from sector n
Submit bio 2 to write 8 sectors from sector n + 16
Submit bio 3 to write 8 sectors from sector n + 8

Bio 1 becomes request 1. Bio 2 becomes request 2.
Bio 3 is merged with request 2, and then subsequently
request 2 is merged with request 1 resulting in just
one I/O request which discards all 24 sectors.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

(Moved the checks above the position checks /Jens)

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>