Re: [PATCH] block: loop: mark bvec as ITER_BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF

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On 3/27/19 9:05 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> loop is one block device, for any bio submitted to this device,
> the upper layer does guarantee that pages added to loop's bio won't
> go away when the bio is in-flight.
> 
> So mark loop's bvec as ITER_BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF then get_page/put_page
> can be saved for serving loop's IO.

Curious if this is a noticable win on loop? In any case, looks
fine to me, I'll queue it up for 5.2.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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