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Consider the following example: * The logical block size is 4 KB. * The physical block size is 8 KB. * max_sectors equals (16 KB >> 9) sectors. * A non-aligned 4 KB and an aligned 64 KB bio are merged into a single non-aligned 68 KB bio. The current behavior is to split such a bio into (16 KB + 16 KB + 16 KB + 16 KB + 4 KB). The start of none of these five bio's is aligned to a physical block boundary. This patch ensures that such a bio is split into four aligned and one non-aligned bio instead of being split into five non-aligned bios. This improves performance because most block devices can handle aligned requests faster than non-aligned requests. Since the physical block size is larger than or equal to the logical block size, this patch preserves the guarantee that the returned value is a multiple of the logical block size. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.