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authorPavel Begunkov <[email protected]>2021-01-09 16:03:03 +0000
committerJens Axboe <[email protected]>2021-01-25 08:58:24 -0700
commitc42bca92be928ce7dece5fc04cf68d0e37ee6718 (patch)
tree132b3485f416fde3c9d57e9003f826fcb5583d75 /include/linux
parent3e1a88ec96259282b9a8b45c3f1fda7a3ff4f6ea (diff)
bio: don't copy bvec for direct IO
The block layer spends quite a while in blkdev_direct_IO() to copy and initialise bio's bvec. However, if we've already got a bvec in the input iterator it might be reused in some cases, i.e. when new ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED flag is set. Simple tests show considerable performance boost, and it also reduces memory footprint. Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/bio.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 9ddb19801a03..676870b2c88d 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -444,10 +444,13 @@ static inline void bio_wouldblock_error(struct bio *bio)
/*
* Calculate number of bvec segments that should be allocated to fit data
- * pointed by @iter.
+ * pointed by @iter. If @iter is backed by bvec it's going to be reused
+ * instead of allocating a new one.
*/
static inline int bio_iov_vecs_to_alloc(struct iov_iter *iter, int max_segs)
{
+ if (iov_iter_is_bvec(iter))
+ return 0;
return iov_iter_npages(iter, max_segs);
}