From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
lsf-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM ATTEND] block: multipage bvecs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:29:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160228162933.GA16019@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456676806.2324.4.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:26:46AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> You mean in bio_add_page() the code which currently aggregates chunks
> within a page could build a bio vec entry up to the max segment size?
> I think that is reasonable, especially now the bio splitting code can
> actually split inside a bio vec entry.
Yes. Kent has an old prototype that did this at:
https://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/log/?h=block_stuff
I don't think any of that is reusable as-is, but the basic idea is
sounds and very useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-28 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 16:33 [LSF/MM ATTEND] block: multipage bvecs Ming Lei
2016-02-28 11:17 ` Boaz Harrosh
2016-02-28 14:34 ` Ming Lei
2016-02-28 14:41 ` Ming Lei
2016-02-28 16:01 ` [Lsf-pc] " James Bottomley
2016-02-29 9:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2016-02-28 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-29 10:16 ` Boaz Harrosh
2016-02-29 15:46 ` James Bottomley
2016-02-28 16:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-28 16:26 ` James Bottomley
2016-02-28 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-02-28 16:45 ` James Bottomley
2016-02-28 16:59 ` Ming Lei
2016-02-28 17:09 ` James Bottomley
2016-02-28 18:49 ` Ming Lei
2016-03-03 8:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-03 11:04 ` Ming Lei
2016-03-03 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-03 23:49 ` Ming Lin
2016-03-07 8:44 ` Ming Lei
2016-03-21 15:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-22 0:12 ` Ming Lei
2016-03-05 8:35 ` Ming Lei
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