From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Snitzer Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] dm-bufio patches Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:57:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20180326185746.GA22409@redhat.com> References: <20180326182939.169591126@debian.vm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180326182939.169591126@debian.vm> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: mpatocka@redhat.com Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Mon, Mar 26 2018 at 2:29pm -0400, mpatocka@redhat.com wrote: > Hi > > Here I'm sending the second version of dm-bufio patches for arbitrary > sector size. > > I dropped the patch that removes alloc_pages because it turns out that > alloc_pages is faster than the slab allocator. I had already staged the previous set, so I need to go back over that and update accordingly. > I also added a patch that removes struct bio from struct dm_buffer > (reducing the size of dm_buffer to 1/3) and allocates the bio only when > doing read or write. OK, I'll go over your new set and try to tease out any differences. Mike