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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2014-01-14 00:13:05 (GMT)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2014-01-15 04:23:03 (GMT)
commit55b082e614e219fb5199a6f93e648ed35d3c96d5 (patch)
treea2707e62bdd914e9651e78cde6cb55a5f0b88d7f /drivers/md/Kconfig
parent55494bf2947dccdf2d98b62374fea7365dfead84 (diff)
downloadlinux-55b082e614e219fb5199a6f93e648ed35d3c96d5.tar.xz
dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch
This patch modifies dm-snapshot so that it prefetches the buffers when loading the exceptions. The number of buffers read ahead is specified in the DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS macro. The current value for DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS (12) was found to provide the best performance on a single 15k SCSI spindle. In the future we may modify this default or make it configurable. Also, introduce the function dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers to setup bufio's number of internal buffers before freeing happens. dm-bufio may hold more buffers if enough memory is available. There is no guarantee that the specified number of buffers will be available - if you need a guarantee, use the argument reserved_buffers for dm_bufio_client_create. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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