[PATCH] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()

[BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()

It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
chrisw: backport to 2.6.15 tree
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 99c9ca6d5992ab18b3e40fa201423bd3e36a0055..bde9c4bfe542d0ea759c8c70e717a7c9ef5c4117 100644 (file)
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -2609,30 +2609,6 @@ static inline int attempt_front_merge(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
        return 0;
 }
 
-/**
- * blk_attempt_remerge  - attempt to remerge active head with next request
- * @q:    The &request_queue_t belonging to the device
- * @rq:   The head request (usually)
- *
- * Description:
- *    For head-active devices, the queue can easily be unplugged so quickly
- *    that proper merging is not done on the front request. This may hurt
- *    performance greatly for some devices. The block layer cannot safely
- *    do merging on that first request for these queues, but the driver can
- *    call this function and make it happen any way. Only the driver knows
- *    when it is safe to do so.
- **/
-void blk_attempt_remerge(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
-{
-       unsigned long flags;
-
-       spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
-       attempt_back_merge(q, rq);
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_attempt_remerge);
-
 static int __make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio)
 {
        struct request *req;

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
index b4d7a3efb90f4d977a60cdbc829f2fbd8ef42b8f..741816a3ecd0265a2babd2097fe43e3ce360e204 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -1332,8 +1332,6 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_start_read (ide_drive_t *drive, unsigned int block)
        if (cdrom_read_from_buffer(drive))
                return ide_stopped;
 
-       blk_attempt_remerge(drive->queue, rq);
-
        /* Clear the local sector buffer. */
        info->nsectors_buffered = 0;
 
@@ -1874,14 +1872,6 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_start_write(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq)
                return ide_stopped;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * for dvd-ram and such media, it's a really big deal to get
-        * big writes all the time. so scour the queue and attempt to
-        * remerge requests, often the plugging will not have had time
-        * to do this properly
-        */
-       blk_attempt_remerge(drive->queue, rq);
-
        info->nsectors_buffered = 0;
 
        /* use dma, if possible. we don't need to check more, since we

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index a33a31e71bbc6cb02acf3409c926137c8664b882..4be113974403278c13e54df40e3b59f211ed2f43 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -559,7 +559,6 @@ extern void register_disk(struct gendisk *dev);
 extern void generic_make_request(struct bio *bio);
 extern void blk_put_request(struct request *);
 extern void blk_end_sync_rq(struct request *rq);
-extern void blk_attempt_remerge(request_queue_t *, struct request *);
 extern struct request *blk_get_request(request_queue_t *, int, gfp_t);
 extern void blk_insert_request(request_queue_t *, struct request *, int, void *);
 extern void blk_requeue_request(request_queue_t *, struct request *);