Hey, when attempting to track down insufficient I/O performance, I found the following reression relating to direct-io on my notebook, where an ata device, which consists of several partitions, is combined to a lvm volume, and one logical volume is then encrypted using dm-crypt. Test case was the following command: $ dd if=/dev/mapper/vg0-root_crypt of=/dev/zero iflag=direct bs=8k count=131072 2.6.34 results in ~16 MB/s, 2.6.35 results in ~ 3.1 MB/s The regression was bisected down to the follwoing commit: commit c2c6ca417e2db7a519e6e92c82f4a933d940d076 Author: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun May 23 11:00:55 2010 -0400 direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests ... How to fix this? I do not use btrfs, but ext3 (and the access was down on the block level, not on the fs level, so this btrs-related commit should not cause such a regression). Best, Dominik -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel