From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 22:53:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: virtio-blk: use VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE and VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE in virtio1 X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.3/fixes-rc1~47^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53eab6fd2777dc7cb338519827e23f8bf892903e;p=pandora-kernel.git virtio-blk: use VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE and VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE in virtio1 VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE is important in order to achieve good performance (up to 2x, though more realistically +30-40%) in latency-bound workloads. However, it was removed by mistake together with VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH. It will be restored in the next revision of the virtio 1.0 standard, so do the same in Linux. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- Reading git-diff-tree failed