[PATCH] optimize o_direct on block devices

Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through
generic direct_io_worker for block device.

direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on
file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection,
extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases.  The end result is
that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O.

For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple
loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in
order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to
the block layer.  This significantly speeds up O_D on block device.

[akpm@osdl.org: small speedup]
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Chen, Kenneth W
2006-12-13 00:34:36 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7e913c5360
commit e61c90188b
4 changed files with 177 additions and 27 deletions

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@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ void bio_set_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio)
}
}
static void bio_release_pages(struct bio *bio)
void bio_release_pages(struct bio *bio)
{
struct bio_vec *bvec = bio->bi_io_vec;
int i;