From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: axboe@fb.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: block device direct I/O fast path
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:59:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1477936765-8828-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> (raw)
Hi Jens,
this small series adds a fasth path to the block device direct I/O
code. It uses new magic created by Kent to avoid allocating an array
for the pages, and as part of that allows small, non-aio direct I/O
requests to be done without memory allocations or atomic ops and with
a minimal cache footprint. It's basically a cut down version of the
new iomap direct I/O code, and in the future it might also make sense
to move the main direct I/O code to a similar model. But indepedent
of that it's always worth to optimize the case of small, non-I/O
requests as allocating the bio and biovec on stack and a trivial
completion handler will always win over a full blown implementation.
next reply other threads:[~2016-10-31 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-31 17:59 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-10-31 17:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: add bio_iov_iter_get_pages() Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 1:05 ` Ming Lei
2016-11-01 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 17:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: fast-path for small and simple direct I/O requests Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 23:19 ` Omar Sandoval
2016-11-01 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 17:00 ` block device direct I/O fast path Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 18:22 ` Jens Axboe
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