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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2015-10-21 22:34:20 +0200
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2015-11-01 00:06:02 +0100
commitdbba42d8a9ebddcc1c1412e8457f79f3cb6ef6e7 (patch)
treeaa185bdeae4a2b11d875cb2a21dac8c23608e1bf /drivers/md
parentdm: convert ffs to __ffs (diff)
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dm: eliminate unused "bioset" process for each bio-based DM device
Commit 54efd50bfd873e2dbf784e0b21a8027ba4299a3e ("block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios") makes it possible for block devices to process large bios. In doing so that commit allocates a new queue->bio_split bioset for each block device, this bioset is used for allocating bios when the driver needs to split large bios. Each bioset allocates a workqueue process, thus the above commit increases the number of processes allocated per block device. DM doesn't need the queue->bio_split bioset, thus we can deallocate it. This reduces the number of allocated processes per bio-based DM device from 3 to 2. Also remove the call to blk_queue_split(), it is not needed because DM does its own splitting. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 95558432c080..64b50b71400f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1763,8 +1763,6 @@ static void dm_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
map = dm_get_live_table(md, &srcu_idx);
- blk_queue_split(q, &bio, q->bio_split);
-
generic_start_io_acct(rw, bio_sectors(bio), &dm_disk(md)->part0);
/* if we're suspended, we have to queue this io for later */
@@ -2792,6 +2790,12 @@ int dm_setup_md_queue(struct mapped_device *md)
case DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED:
dm_init_old_md_queue(md);
blk_queue_make_request(md->queue, dm_make_request);
+ /*
+ * DM handles splitting bios as needed. Free the bio_split bioset
+ * since it won't be used (saves 1 process per bio-based DM device).
+ */
+ bioset_free(md->queue->bio_split);
+ md->queue->bio_split = NULL;
break;
}