A user noticed that write performance was horrible over loopback and we traced it to an inversion of when we need to set MSG_MORE. It should be set when we have more bvec's to send, not when we are on the last bvec. This patch made the test go from 20 iops to 78k iops.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 454f770..510ae02 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static inline int sock_send_bvec(struct nbd_device *nbd, int index, static int nbd_send_cmd(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct nbd_cmd *cmd, int index) { struct request *req = blk_mq_rq_from_pdu(cmd); - int result, flags; + int result; struct nbd_request request; unsigned long size = blk_rq_bytes(req); struct bio *bio; @@ -314,7 +314,6 @@ static int nbd_send_cmd(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct nbd_cmd *cmd, int index) if (type != NBD_CMD_WRITE) return 0; - flags = 0; bio = req->bio; while (bio) { struct bio *next = bio->bi_next; @@ -323,9 +322,8 @@ static int nbd_send_cmd(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct nbd_cmd *cmd, int index) bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bio, iter) { bool is_last = !next && bio_iter_last(bvec, iter); + int flags = is_last ? 0 : MSG_MORE; - if (is_last) - flags = MSG_MORE; dev_dbg(nbd_to_dev(nbd), "request %p: sending %d bytes data\n", cmd, bvec.bv_len); result = sock_send_bvec(nbd, index, &bvec, flags); -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
