Hi, all This version reworked on REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA support as suggested by Christoph and dropped the block core bits since Jens has picked them up. Fio test shows bio-based IO path gives the following performance improvement: 1) Ramdisk device With bio-based IO path, sequential read/write, random read/write IOPS boost : 28%, 24%, 21%, 16% Latency improvement: 32%, 17%, 21%, 16% 2) Fusion IO device With bio-based IO path, sequential read/write, random read/write IOPS boost : 11%, 11%, 13%, 10% Latency improvement: 10%, 10%, 12%, 10% Asias He (2): virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk virtio-blk: Add REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA support to bio path drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 306 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 268 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) -- 1.7.11.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html