Re: Testing latest linux-next 4.9 ib_srp and ib_srpt sees I/O capped at 1MB and no merging

2016-12-22 Thread Laurence Oberman
- Original Message - > From: "Christoph Hellwig" > To: "Laurence Oberman" > Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Bart Van Assche" > , > linux-r...@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:40:49

Re: Testing latest linux-next 4.9 ib_srp and ib_srpt sees I/O capped at 1MB and no merging

2016-12-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Laurance, please try the patch below: --- >From 69febe1cfb55844862f768447432249781001f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:38:29 +0100 Subject: block: add back plugging in __blkdev_direct_IO This allows sending larger than 1 MB requess to devices that

Re: Testing latest linux-next 4.9 ib_srp and ib_srpt sees I/O capped at 1MB and no merging

2016-12-22 Thread Laurence Oberman
Hello Christoph, apologies, here is a clear summary of the issue. During testing of the latest linux-next with rc-10 block layer changes I noticed that I/O was being capped at 1MB size and no merging was seen. The issue was not apparent on 4.8.0-rc8 or earlier. dd if=/dev/sdw bs=4096k of=/dev/

Re: Testing latest linux-next 4.9 ib_srp and ib_srpt

2016-12-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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Re: Testing latest linux-next 4.9 ib_srp and ib_srpt

2016-12-21 Thread Laurence Oberman
- Original Message - > From: "Laurence Oberman" > To: "Bart Van Assche" > Cc: linux-r...@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 1:34:01 AM > Subject: Re: Testing latest linux-next 4.9 ib_srp and ib_srpt > > > > - Ori