linux-kernel - block device direct I/O fast path

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:59:23 -0600
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     axboe@...com
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: block device direct I/O fast path

Hi Jens,

this small series adds a fasth path to the block device direct I/O
code.  It uses new magic created by Kent to avoid allocating an array
for the pages, and as part of that allows small, non-aio direct I/O
requests to be done without memory allocations or atomic ops and with
a minimal cache footprint.  It's basically a cut down version of the
new iomap direct I/O code, and in the future it might also make sense
to move the main direct I/O code to a similar model.  But indepedent
of that it's always worth to optimize the case of small, non-I/O
requests as allocating the bio and biovec on stack and a trivial
completion handler will always win over a full blown implementation.