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 V2 -> V3: - Use GFP_NOIO pointed out by Ming - Rebase to latest for-next branch 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
