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Commit 092c8d46 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Linus Torvalds
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direct-io: fix boundary block handling



When we read/write a file sequentially, we will read/write not only the
data blocks but also the indirect blocks that may not be physically
adjacent to the data blocks.  So filesystems set the BH_Boundary flag to
submit the previous I/O before reading/writing an indirect block.

However the generic direct IO code mishandles buffer_boundary(), setting
sdio->boundary before each submit_page_section() call which results in
sending only one page bios as underlying code thinks this page is the last
in the contiguous extent.  So fix the problem by setting sdio->boundary
only if the current page is really the last one in the mapped extent.

With this patch and "direct-io: submit bio after boundary buffer is added
to it" I've measured about 10% throughput improvement of direct IO reads
on ext3 with SATA harddrive (from 90 MB/s to 100 MB/s).  With ramdisk, the
improvement was about 3-fold (from 350 MB/s to 1.2 GB/s).  For other
filesystems (such as ext4), the improvements won't be as visible because
the frequency of BH_Boundary flag being set is much smaller.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarKazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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