biovecs has become immutable since v3.13, so it isn't necessary
to allocate biovecs for the new cloned bios, then we can save
one extra biovecs allocation/copy, and the allocation is often
not fixed-length and a bit more expensive.
For example, if the 'max_sectors_kb' of null blk's queue is set
as 16(32 sectors) via sysfs just for making more splits, this patch
can increase throught about ~70% in the sequential read test over
null_blk(direct io, bs: 1M).
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Cc: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
This fixes a performance regression introduced by commit 54efd50bfd,
and allows us to take full advantage of the fact that we have immutable
bio_vecs. Hand applied, as it rejected violently with commit
5014c311baa2.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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