From 392ddc32982a5c661dd90dd49a3cb37f1c68b782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:42:54 +0100 Subject: bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio When we go and allocate a bio for IO, we actually do two allocations. One for the bio itself, and one for the bi_io_vec that holds the actual pages we are interested in. This feature inlines a definable amount of io vecs inside the bio itself, so we eliminate the bio_vec array allocation for IO's up to a certain size. It defaults to 4 vecs, which is typically 16k of IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/bio.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/bio.h') diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h index 4b80d3537f97..18462c5b8fff 100644 --- a/include/linux/bio.h +++ b/include/linux/bio.h @@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ struct bio { #endif bio_destructor_t *bi_destructor; /* destructor */ + + /* + * We can inline a number of vecs at the end of the bio, to avoid + * double allocations for a small number of bio_vecs. This member + * MUST obviously be kept at the very end of the bio. + */ + struct bio_vec bi_inline_vecs[0]; }; /* @@ -213,6 +220,11 @@ static inline void *bio_data(struct bio *bio) return NULL; } +static inline int bio_has_allocated_vec(struct bio *bio) +{ + return bio->bi_io_vec && bio->bi_io_vec != bio->bi_inline_vecs; +} + /* * will die */ -- cgit v1.2.3