While looking at VM bootup times, we stumbled over the fact that the NVMe code only does I/O operations of up to 4kb at a given point in time. This is usually ok, but if you have an OS that loads a lot of data on boot in combination to network backed storage, it shows in bootup times.
There is no need to restrict ourselves to 4kb though. The INT13 call we receive gives us much larger chunks which we can just map into a native bigger NVMe I/O call if the request buffer is page aligned. This patch implements all logic required to do the above and gives a substantial performance boost on boot. Alexander Graf (3): nvme: Record maximum allowed request size nvme: Allow to set PRP2 nvme: Pass large I/O requests as PRP lists src/hw/nvme-int.h | 14 ++++++- src/hw/nvme.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.16.4 Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH Krausenstr. 38 10117 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrung: Christian Schlaeger, Jonathan Weiss Eingetragen am Amtsgericht Charlottenburg unter HRB 149173 B Sitz: Berlin Ust-ID: DE 289 237 879 _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org
