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SubjectRe: [PATCH] block: blk-merge: fast-clone bio when splitting rw bios
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On 09/17/2015 09:13 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> biovecs has become immutable since v3.13, so it isn't necessary
> to allocate biovecs for the new cloned bios, then we can save
> one extra biovecs allocation/copy, and the allocation is often
> not fixed-length and a bit more expensive.
>
> For example, if the 'max_sectors_kb' of null blk's queue is set
> as 16(32 sectors) via sysfs just for making more splits, this patch
> can increase throught about ~70% in the sequential read test over
> null_blk(direct io, bs: 1M).

I'd be curious how this compares to before we did the splitting, not
exceeding the limits through bio_add_page() instead?

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Jens Axboe



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