Remove BIO_RW_SYNCIO flag from kcopyd This improves write throughput twice when writing to the origin with snapshot on the same device. This helps for CFQ I/O scheduler that has separate queues for sync and async I/O, async is optimized for throughput, sync for latency. Reallocations are triggered by writes that are usually async, so mark it as async as well. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.36-rc7-fast/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.36-rc7-fast.orig/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c 2010-10-07 16:09:13.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.36-rc7-fast/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c 2010-10-15 03:18:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int run_io_job(struct kcopyd_job { int r; struct dm_io_request io_req = { - .bi_rw = job->rw | REQ_SYNC | REQ_UNPLUG, + .bi_rw = job->rw | REQ_UNPLUG, .mem.type = DM_IO_PAGE_LIST, .mem.ptr.pl = job->pages, .mem.offset = job->offset, -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel