block: Skip I/O merges when disabled

The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

block/elevator.c

@@ -488,6 +488,9 @@ int elv_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request **req, struct bio *bio)
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (blk_queue_nomerges(q))
+		return ELEVATOR_NO_MERGE;
+
 	/*
 	 * See if our hash lookup can find a potential backmerge.
 	 */