Re: [PATCH] loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread.

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:27 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> Looks fine,
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>>
>> But if you actually care about performance in any way I'd suggest
>> to use the loop device in direct I/O mode..
>
> The losetup on my test VM is too old to support that :-(
> I guess it might be time to upgraded.
>
> It seems that there is not "mount -o direct_loop" or similar, so you
> have to do the losetup and the mount separately.  Any thoughts on

I guess the 'direct_loop' can be added into 'mount' directly? but not familiar
with mount utility.

> whether that should be changed ?

There was sysfs interface for controling direct IO in the initial
submission, but
looks it was reviewed out, :-)


Thanks,
Ming Lei