From 55b082e614e219fb5199a6f93e648ed35d3c96d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:13:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch This patch modifies dm-snapshot so that it prefetches the buffers when loading the exceptions. The number of buffers read ahead is specified in the DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS macro. The current value for DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS (12) was found to provide the best performance on a single 15k SCSI spindle. In the future we may modify this default or make it configurable. Also, introduce the function dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers to setup bufio's number of internal buffers before freeing happens. dm-bufio may hold more buffers if enough memory is available. There is no guarantee that the specified number of buffers will be available - if you need a guarantee, use the argument reserved_buffers for dm_bufio_client_create. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer --- Reading git-format-patch failed