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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] iov_iter: allow iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to allocate more pages per call
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 23:49:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170203074901.GA19808@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486040452.2812.6.camel@redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:00:52AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Yeah, that might work. You could kmalloc the buffer array according to
> the maxsize value. For small ones we could even consider using an on-
> stack buffer.

For the block direct I/O code we defintively want to avoid any
allocations for small I/O a that shows up in the performance numbers.
And we'd like to reuse the on-stack bio_vec so that the defintion of
a small I/O can be as big as possible without blowing up the stack.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-03  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 21:23 [PATCH] iov_iter: allow iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to allocate more pages per call Jeff Layton
2017-01-25 13:32 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Jeff Layton
2017-01-25 13:32   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Jeff Layton
2017-01-26 12:35     ` Jeff Layton
2017-01-27 13:24       ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Jeff Layton
2017-01-27 13:24         ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Jeff Layton
2017-01-27 13:24         ` [PATCH v4 2/2] ceph: switch DIO code to use iov_iter_get_pages_alloc Jeff Layton
2017-01-30 15:40           ` Jeff Layton
2017-01-25 13:32   ` [PATCH v3 " Jeff Layton
2017-02-02  9:51   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] iov_iter: allow iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to allocate more pages per call Al Viro
2017-02-02 10:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-02 11:16       ` Al Viro
2017-02-02 13:00         ` Jeff Layton
2017-02-03  7:29           ` Al Viro
2017-02-03 18:29             ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-03 19:08               ` Al Viro
2017-02-03 19:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-13  9:56                   ` Steve Capper
2017-02-13 21:40                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-03  7:49           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-02-03  8:54             ` Al Viro
2017-02-03 11:09               ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-02 14:48     ` Jan Kara
2017-02-02 18:28       ` Al Viro
2017-02-03 14:47         ` Jan Kara
2017-02-04  3:08     ` Al Viro
2017-02-04 19:26       ` Al Viro
2017-02-04 22:12         ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-04 22:11       ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-05  1:51         ` Al Viro
2017-02-05 20:15           ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-05 21:01             ` Al Viro
2017-02-05 21:19               ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-05 22:04                 ` Al Viro
2017-02-06  3:05                   ` Al Viro
2017-02-06  9:08                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-06  9:57                       ` Al Viro
2017-02-06 14:18                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-07  7:19                           ` Al Viro
2017-02-07 11:35                             ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-08  5:54                               ` Al Viro
2017-02-08  9:53                                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-06  8:37                   ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-05 20:56           ` Al Viro
2017-02-16 13:10     ` Jeff Layton

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