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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>,
	drbd-user@lists.linbit.com, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>, Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>,
	Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>,
	Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 11:15:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150529151534.GA27800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1ivSY1w40wixbRZJq0dnT9K15uOMmMmAEUELLdrG5=owFsLA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 29 2015 at  3:05P -0400,
Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 04:42:44PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> >> Here are fio results of XFS on a DM stripped target with 2 SSDs + 1 HDD.
> >> Does it make sense?
> >
> > To stripe across devices with different characteristics?
> >
> > Some suggestions.
> >
> > Prepare 3 kernels.
> >   O - Old kernel.
> >   M - Old kernel with merge_bvec_fn disabled.
> 
> How to disable it?
> Maybe just hack it as below?
> 
> void blk_queue_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q, merge_bvec_fn *mbfn)
> {
>         //q->merge_bvec_fn = mbfn;
> }

Right, there isn't an existing way to disable it, you'd need a hack like
that.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-22 18:18 [PATCH v4 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-05-25  5:46   ` NeilBrown
2015-05-26 14:36   ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-26 15:02     ` Ming Lin
2015-05-26 15:34       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2015-05-26 23:06         ` NeilBrown
2015-05-27  0:40           ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2015-05-27  8:20             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-26 16:04       ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-26 17:17         ` Ming Lin
2015-05-27 23:42         ` Ming Lin
2015-05-28  0:36           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2015-05-28  5:54             ` Ming Lin
2015-05-29  7:05             ` Ming Lin
2015-05-29 15:15               ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2015-06-01  6:02             ` Ming Lin
2015-06-02 20:59               ` Ming Lin
2015-06-04 21:06                 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-06-04 22:21                   ` Ming Lin
2015-06-05  0:06                     ` Mike Snitzer
2015-06-05  5:21                       ` Ming Lin
2015-06-09  6:09                   ` Ming Lin
2015-06-10 21:20                     ` Ming Lin
2015-06-10 21:46                       ` Mike Snitzer
2015-06-10 22:06                         ` Ming Lin
2015-06-12  5:49                           ` Ming Lin
2015-06-18  5:27                         ` Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] block: simplify bio_add_page() Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_discard Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() Ming Lin
2015-05-25  5:48   ` NeilBrown
2015-05-25  7:03     ` Ming Lin
2015-05-25  7:54       ` NeilBrown
2015-05-25 14:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-26 14:33           ` Ming Lin
2015-05-26 22:32             ` Ming Lin
2015-05-26 23:03               ` NeilBrown
2015-05-26 23:42                 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-27  0:38                   ` NeilBrown
2015-05-27  8:15                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely Ming Lin
2015-05-25  5:49   ` NeilBrown
2015-05-25 14:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-25 15:02     ` Ilya Dryomov
2015-05-25 15:08       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-25 15:19         ` Ilya Dryomov
2015-05-25 15:35       ` Alex Elder
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs() Ming Lin
2015-05-22 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-24  7:37   ` Ming Lin
2015-05-25 13:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-29  6:39       ` Ming Lin
2015-06-01  6:15   ` Ming Lin
2015-06-03  6:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-06-03 13:28       ` Jeff Moyer
2015-06-03 17:06         ` Ming Lin

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