vdev_geom_io: parallelize ?

[Andriy Gapon]

on 23/04/2010 09:08 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:04:50AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Just thinking out loud.
>>
>> Currently ZFS vdev_geom_io does something like:
>> for (...) {
>> 	...
>> 	g_io_request(...);
>> 	biowait(...);
>> 	...
>> }
>> I/O is done in MAXPHYS chunks.
>>
>> If that was changed to first issuing all the requests and only after that
>> waiting on them, could there be any performance benefit?
>> Or cases of vdev_geom_io with size > MAXPHYS are too rare?
>> Or something else?
> 
> The vdev_geom_io() function is there only to read ZFS labels, it is not
> used during regular I/O. Regular I/O requests are handled asynchronously
> by the vdev_geom_io_start() function.

Oops.  Thanks!

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Andriy Gapon