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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread.
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:27:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760ijiind.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170404071033.GA25855@infradead.org>

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On Tue, Apr 04 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Looks fine,
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> But if you actually care about performance in any way I'd suggest
> to use the loop device in direct I/O mode..

The losetup on my test VM is too old to support that :-(
I guess it might be time to upgraded.

It seems that there is not "mount -o direct_loop" or similar, so you
have to do the losetup and the mount separately.  Any thoughts on
whether that should be changed ?

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-05  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-03  1:18 [PATCH] loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread NeilBrown
2017-04-04  7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-05  4:27   ` NeilBrown [this message]
2017-04-05  5:13     ` Ming Lei
2017-04-04 11:23 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-04 14:24 ` Ming Lei
2017-04-05  4:31   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-05  4:33 ` [PATCH v2] " NeilBrown
2017-04-05  5:05   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-05  7:19   ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-05  7:32     ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06  2:23       ` NeilBrown
2017-04-06  6:53         ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 23:47           ` [PATCH v3] " NeilBrown

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