Re: [PATCH 0/6][RFC] virtio-blk: Change I/O path from request toBIO

[Avi Kivity]

On 01/02/2012 06:18 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 04:45:42PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > win.  The fact that you added batching suggests there is some benefit
> > to what the request-based code path does.  So find out what's good
> > about the request-based code path and how to get the best of both
> > worlds.
>
> Batching pretty much always is a winner.  The maximum bio size is small
> enough that we'll frequently see multiple contiguos bios.  

Maybe the maximum bio size should be increased then; not that I disagree
with your conclusion.

> Because of
> that the Md layer fo example uses the same kind of batching.  I've tried
> to make this more general by passing a bio list to ->make_request and
> make the on-stack plugging work on bios, but in the timeslice I had
> available for that I didn't manage to actually make it work.
>
>

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