Hi Laurance, please try the patch below: --- >From 69febe1cfb55844862f768447432249781001f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:38:29 +0100 Subject: block: add back plugging in __blkdev_direct_IO This allows sending larger than 1 MB requess to devices that support large I/O sizes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reported-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 3 +++ fs/iomap.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 7c45072..206a92a 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp; struct inode *inode = bdev_file_inode(file); struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(inode); + struct blk_plug plug; struct blkdev_dio *dio; struct bio *bio; bool is_read = (iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ); @@ -353,6 +354,7 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) dio->multi_bio = false; dio->should_dirty = is_read && (iter->type == ITER_IOVEC); + blk_start_plug(&plug); for (;;) { bio->bi_bdev = bdev; bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = pos >> 9; @@ -394,6 +396,7 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) submit_bio(bio); bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_pages); } + blk_finish_plug(&plug); if (!dio->is_sync) return -EIOCBQUEUED; diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c index 354a123..3adf1e1 100644 --- a/fs/iomap.c +++ b/fs/iomap.c @@ -844,7 +844,6 @@ iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, struct iomap_ops *ops, size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter); loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos, end = iocb->ki_pos + count - 1, ret = 0; unsigned int flags = IOMAP_DIRECT; - struct blk_plug plug; struct iomap_dio *dio; lockdep_assert_held(&inode->i_rwsem); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html