Hi Martijn, On 4/29/20 4:03 PM, Martijn Coenen wrote: > This allows userspace to completely setup a loop device with a single > ioctl, removing the in-between state where the device can be partially > configured - eg the loop device has a backing file associated with it, > but is reading from the wrong offset. > > Besides removing the intermediate state, another big benefit of this > ioctl is that LOOP_SET_STATUS can be slow; the main reason for this > slowness is that LOOP_SET_STATUS(64) calls blk_mq_freeze_queue() to > freeze the associated queue; this requires waiting for RCU > synchronization, which I've measured can take about 15-20ms on this > device on average. > > In addition to doing what LOOP_SET_STATUS can do, LOOP_CONFIGURE can > also be used to: > - Set the correct block size immediately by setting > loop_config.block_size (avoids LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE) > - Explicitly request direct I/O mode by setting LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO > in loop_config.info.lo_flags (avoids LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO) > - Explicitly request read-only mode by setting LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY > in loop_config.info.lo_flags > > Here's setting up ~70 regular loop devices with an offset on an x86 > Android device, using LOOP_SET_FD and LOOP_SET_STATUS: > > vsoc_x86:/system/apex # time for i in `seq 30 100`; > do losetup -r -o 4096 /dev/block/loop$i com.android.adbd.apex; done > 0m03.40s real 0m00.02s user 0m00.03s system > > Here's configuring ~70 devices in the same way, but using a modified > losetup that uses the new LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl: > > vsoc_x86:/system/apex # time for i in `seq 30 100`; > do losetup -r -o 4096 /dev/block/loop$i com.android.adbd.apex; done > 0m01.94s real 0m00.01s user 0m00.01s system > > Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> Can we have also a patch for the loop.4 manual page please? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
