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Ming Lei authored
biovecs has become immutable since v3.13, so it isn't necessary to allocate biovecs for the new cloned bios, then we can save one extra biovecs allocation/copy, and the allocation is often not fixed-length and a bit more expensive. For example, if the 'max_sectors_kb' of null blk's queue is set as 16(32 sectors) via sysfs just for making more splits, this patch can increase throught about ~70% in the sequential read test over null_blk(direct io, bs: 1M). Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Cc: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> This fixes a performance regression introduced by commit 54efd50b, and allows us to take full advantage of the fact that we have immutable bio_vecs. Hand applied, as it rejected violently with commit 5014c311. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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