IIRC Jens Axboe has done some work on merging kiobuf-based requests.
> (XFS already clusters the IOs for them in that case.)
>
> Is that a realistic basis for a cleaned-up ll_rw_blk.c?
I don't think os. If we minimize the state in the IO container object,
the lower levels could split them at their guess and the IO completion
function just has to handle the case that it might be called for a smaller
object.
Christoph
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