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    Btrfs: stop using btrfs_schedule_bio() · 08635bae
    Chris Mason authored
    
    
    btrfs_schedule_bio() hands IO off to a helper thread to do the actual
    submit_bio() call.  This has been used to make sure async crc and
    compression helpers don't get stuck on IO submission.  To maintain good
    performance, over time the IO submission threads duplicated some IO
    scheduler characteristics such as high and low priority IOs and they
    also made some ugly assumptions about request allocation batch sizes.
    
    All of this cost at least one extra context switch during IO submission,
    and doesn't fit well with the modern blkmq IO stack.  So, this commit stops
    using btrfs_schedule_bio().  We may need to adjust the number of async
    helper threads for crcs and compression, but long term it's a better
    path.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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