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. As Omar pointed out, the patches have slight conflict with his, but should be easy to fix. Thanks, Shaohua Shaohua Li (2): block/loop: set hw_sectors block/loop: allow request merge for directio mode drivers/block/loop.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.9.5
