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Message-Id: <1437061068-26118-3-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:37:44 +0800
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes@...oraproject.org>,
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 2/6] block: loop: set QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES for request queue of loop
It doesn't make sense to enable merge because the I/O
submitted to backing file is handled page by page.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index f7a4c9d..e4381f8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1595,6 +1595,12 @@ static int loop_add(struct loop_device **l, int i)
}
lo->lo_queue->queuedata = lo;
+ /*
+ * It doesn't make sense to enable merge because the I/O
+ * submitted to backing file is handled page by page.
+ */
+ queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, lo->lo_queue);
+
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lo->write_cmd_head);
INIT_WORK(&lo->write_work, loop_queue_write_work);
--
1.9.1
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