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dm: eliminate unused "bioset" process for each bio-based DM device 

Commit 54efd50bfd ("block: make
generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios") makes it possible
for block devices to process large bios.  In doing so that commit
allocates a new queue->bio_split bioset for each block device, this
bioset is used for allocating bios when the driver needs to split large
bios.

Each bioset allocates a workqueue process, thus the above commit
increases the number of processes allocated per block device.

DM doesn't need the queue->bio_split bioset, thus we can deallocate it.
This reduces the number of allocated processes per bio-based DM device
from 3 to 2.  Also remove the call to blk_queue_split(), it is not
needed because DM does its own splitting.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mikulas Patocka 2015-10-21 16:34:20 -04:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent a3d939ae7b
commit dbba42d8a9
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -1763,8 +1763,6 @@ static void dm_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
map = dm_get_live_table(md, &srcu_idx);
blk_queue_split(q, &bio, q->bio_split);
generic_start_io_acct(rw, bio_sectors(bio), &dm_disk(md)->part0);
/* if we're suspended, we have to queue this io for later */
@ -2792,6 +2790,12 @@ int dm_setup_md_queue(struct mapped_device *md)
case DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED:
dm_init_old_md_queue(md);
blk_queue_make_request(md->queue, dm_make_request);
/*
* DM handles splitting bios as needed. Free the bio_split bioset
* since it won't be used (saves 1 process per bio-based DM device).
*/
bioset_free(md->queue->bio_split);
md->queue->bio_split = NULL;
break;
}