From: Kazuya Mio Subject: Re: bio splits unnecessarily due to BH_Boundary in ext3 direct I/O Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:59:17 +0900 Message-ID: <5164D585.6080404@sx.jp.nec.com> References: <51385177.9030904@sx.jp.nec.com> <20130307104854.GB6723@quack.suse.cz> <51482381.7010508@sx.jp.nec.com> <20130319193132.GE5222@quack.suse.cz> <514AC848.6020104@sx.jp.nec.com> <20130329171536.GF5913@quack.suse.cz> <51594494.3070207@sx.jp.nec.com> <20130409154059.GA15214@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from TYO200.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.50]:35832 "EHLO tyo200.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752087Ab3DJDHo (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:07:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130409154059.GA15214@quack.suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2013/04/10 0:40, Jan Kara wrote: > Ah, thanks for pointing that out. It took me a while to get things > correct but with the attached patch (on top of the first patch), I'm > getting all the bios with maximum size. I've also checked that for direct > IO on ramdisk, I get about 3x faster IO on ext3 with both patches applied. > I also get a decent 10% speedup of dio reads on standard harddrive. I made sure that the problem I reported was completely fixed. Thank you for your help. Regards, Kazuya Mio