Re: [PATCH] block: advance by bvec's length for bio_for_each_bvec

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On 2/27/19 8:24 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> bio_for_each_bvec is used in fast path of bio splitting and sg mapping,
> and what we want to do is to iterate over multi-page bvecs, instead of pages.
> However, bvec_iter_advance() is invisble for this requirement, and
> always advance by page size.
> 
> This way isn't efficient for multipage bvec iterator, also bvec_iter_len()
> isn't as fast as mp_bvec_iter_len().
> 
> So advance by multi-page bvec's length instead of page size for bio_for_each_bvec().
> 
> More than 1% IOPS improvement can be observed in io_uring test on null_blk.

Thanks Ming, I tested this last night with good results.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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