On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 08:47:45PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 02:41:53PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > > > > OK so this is an optimization patch right? > > What kind of performance gain is observed with it? > > None. I actually wrote it when the block layer had a bug when dm was > used on top of the !merge case, and I decided to send it out as there had been > no discussion about disabling this by default on the existing blk-mq > drivers. > > At least for my qemu/kvm setup it doesn't make a difference either way, > although not doing the cheap merge doesn't like the right kind of optimization > to me.
Could you respond to Ming Lei's mail, who benchmarked the patch, please? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
