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Commit e03a3d7a authored by Ming Lei's avatar Ming Lei Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: loop: use kthread_work



The following patch will use dio/aio to submit IO to backing file,
then it needn't to schedule IO concurrently from work, so
use kthread_work for decreasing context switch cost a lot.

For non-AIO case, single thread has been used for long long time,
and it was just converted to work in v4.0, which has caused performance
regression for fedora live booting already. In discussion[1], even
though submitting I/O via work concurrently can improve random read IO
throughput, meantime it might hurt sequential read IO performance, so
better to restore to single thread behaviour.

For the following AIO support, it is better to use multi hw-queue
with per-hwq kthread than current work approach suppose there is so
high performance requirement for loop.

[1] http://marc.info/?t=143082678400002&r=1&w=2

Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
parent 5b5e20f4
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