Avoiding bio cloning (aka noclone) offers a slight advantage over bio
cloning for this read workload:
  fio --ioengine=psync --iodepth=1 --rw=read --bs=512 --direct=1 \
      --numjobs=12 --time_based --runtime=10 --group_reporting 
--name=/dev/mapper/mpath

clone   3331MB/s 3337MB/s 3355MB/s
noclone 3418MB/s 3407MB/s 3420MB/s

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 2ee5e357a0a7..579330cd7a6a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -1178,9 +1178,10 @@ static int multipath_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned 
argc, char **argv)
        ti->num_discard_bios = 1;
        ti->num_write_same_bios = 1;
        ti->num_write_zeroes_bios = 1;
-       if (m->queue_mode == DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED)
+       if (m->queue_mode == DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED) {
+               ti->no_clone = true;
                ti->per_io_data_size = multipath_per_bio_data_size();
-       else
+       } else
                ti->per_io_data_size = sizeof(struct dm_mpath_io);
 
        return 0;
@@ -1584,11 +1585,11 @@ static int multipath_end_io(struct dm_target *ti, 
struct request *clone,
        return r;
 }
 
-static int multipath_end_io_bio(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *clone,
+static int multipath_end_io_bio(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio,
                                blk_status_t *error)
 {
        struct multipath *m = ti->private;
-       struct dm_mpath_io *mpio = get_mpio_from_bio(clone);
+       struct dm_mpath_io *mpio = get_mpio_from_bio(bio);
        struct pgpath *pgpath = mpio->pgpath;
        unsigned long flags;
        int r = DM_ENDIO_DONE;
@@ -1611,7 +1612,7 @@ static int multipath_end_io_bio(struct dm_target *ti, 
struct bio *clone,
        }
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&m->lock, flags);
-       bio_list_add(&m->queued_bios, clone);
+       bio_list_add(&m->queued_bios, bio);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
        if (!test_bit(MPATHF_QUEUE_IO, &m->flags))
                queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->process_queued_bios);
@@ -2011,7 +2012,7 @@ static int multipath_busy(struct dm_target *ti)
  *---------------------------------------------------------------*/
 static struct target_type multipath_target = {
        .name = "multipath",
-       .version = {1, 13, 0},
+       .version = {1, 14, 0},
        .features = DM_TARGET_SINGLETON | DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE |
                    DM_TARGET_PASSES_INTEGRITY,
        .module = THIS_MODULE,
-- 
2.15.0

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