From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> two small patches to improve performance for loop in directio mode. The goal is to increase IO size sending to underlayer disks. Thanks, Shaohua Shaohua Li (2): block/loop: set hw_sectors block/loop: allow request merge for directio mode drivers/block/loop.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.9.5