block: enable bio caching use for passthru IO
bdev based polled O_DIRECT is currently quite a bit faster than passthru on the same device, and one of the reaons is that we're not able to use the bio caching for passthru IO. If REQ_POLLED is set on the request, use the fs bio set for grabbing a bio from the caches, if available. This saves 5-6% of CPU over head for polled passthru IO. Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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