[RFC 0/2] nocopy bvec for direct IO

[Pavel Begunkov]

The idea is to avoid copying, merging, etc. bvec from iterator to bio
in direct I/O and use the one we've already got. Hook it up for io_uring.
Had an eye on it for a long, and it also was brought up by Matthew
just recently. Let me know if I forgot or misplaced some tags.

A benchmark got me 430KIOPS vs 540KIOPS, or +25% on bare metal. And perf
shows that bio_iov_iter_get_pages() was taking ~20%. The test is pretty
silly, but still imposing. I'll redo it closer to reality for next
iteration, anyway need to double check some cases.

If same applied to iomap, common chunck can be moved from block_dev
into bio_iov_iter_get_pages(), but if there any benefit for filesystems,
they should explicitly opt in with ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED.

# how to apply
based on Jens' for-11/block
+ Ming's nr_vec patch,
+ io_uring fix, 9c3a205c5ffa36e96903c2 ("io_uring: fix ITER_BVEC check")

or there:
https://github.com/isilence/linux/commits/bvec_nocopy

# how to reproduce
null_blk queue_mode=2 completion_nsec=0 submit_queues=NUM_CPU
fio/t/io_uring with null blk, no iopoll, BS=16*4096


Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Pavel Begunkov (2):
  iov: introduce ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED
  block: no-copy bvec for direct IO

 fs/block_dev.c      | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 fs/io_uring.c       |  1 +
 include/linux/uio.h | 14 +++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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