Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Various micro optimizations of the block direct IO path. > > This addresses all review comments and adds an additional prefetch > optimization that gives another about 0.3% in a large macro benchmark. > Overall the patchkit is worht about 2.2% in the same macro benchmark. > > I also ported it to current mainline, resolving some conflicts with > hch's recent changes to direct-io. Hi, Andi, If you get rid of the unlikely I pointed out in patch 11 and address my question on patch 6 (about always_inline) and repost, I'll ack the series. I was hoping hch or Jens would chime in on patch 10, but it seems they're busy. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html