From d3834fefcfe5610702379d78596337875df2db5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Dryomov Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:19:02 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] rbd: bump queue_max_segments The default queue_limits::max_segments value (BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS = 128) unnecessarily limits bio sizes to 512k (assuming 4k pages). rbd, being a virtual block device, doesn't have any restrictions on the number of physical segments, so bump max_segments to max_hw_sectors, in theory allowing a sector per segment (although the only case this matters that I can think of is some readv/writev style thing). In practice this is going to give us 1M bios - the number of segments in a bio is limited in bio_get_nr_vecs() by BIO_MAX_PAGES = 256. Note that this doesn't result in any improvement on a typical direct sequential test. This is because on a box with a not too badly fragmented memory the default BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS is enough to see nice rbd object size sized requests. The only difference is the size of bios being merged - 512k vs 1M for something like $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rbd0 oflag=direct bs=$RBD_OBJ_SIZE $ dd if=/dev/rbd0 iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=$RBD_OBJ_SIZE Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov Reviewed-by: Alex Elder --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c index 89fe8a4bc02e..bc88fbcb9715 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -3791,6 +3791,7 @@ static int rbd_init_disk(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev) /* set io sizes to object size */ segment_size = rbd_obj_bytes(&rbd_dev->header); blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, segment_size / SECTOR_SIZE); + blk_queue_max_segments(q, segment_size / SECTOR_SIZE); blk_queue_max_segment_size(q, segment_size); blk_queue_io_min(q, segment_size); blk_queue_io_opt(q, segment_size); -- GitLab