Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:32:41 -0800 | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] mtip32xx: handle arbitrary size bios |
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:10:18PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:30:30PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > We get a measurable performance increase by handling this in the driver when > > we're already looping over the biovec, instead of handling it separately in > > generic_make_request() (or bio_add_page() originally) > > Given that Jens has a patch queue up to convert the driver to blk-mq > adjusting the blk-mq infrastructure to handle this might be a better > plan forward..
I mostly wanted the patch in the series as an example conversion - converting blk-mq is going to take some thought and time to familiarize myself with the code.
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