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Message-ID: <756f1630-f875-4a7c-26cf-9cce7b850ca1@kernel.dk>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 13:05:01 -0700
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc: Linux Block Layer Mailinglist <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: respect virtual boundary mask in bvecs
On 11/7/18 6:58 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> With drivers that are settting a virtual boundary constrain, we are
> seeing a lot of bio splitting and smaller I/Os being submitted to the
> driver.
>
> This happens because the bio gap detection code does not account cases
> where PAGE_SIZE - 1 is bigger than queue_virt_boundary() and thus will
> split the bio unnecessarily.
Thanks, applied.
--
Jens Axboe
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