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From: Dominik Brodowski on 5 Aug 2010 05:40
Hey,

when attempting to track down insufficient I/O performance, I found the
following reression relating to direct-io on my notebook, where an
ata device, which consists of several partitions, is combined to a lvm
volume, and one logical volume is then encrypted using dm-crypt. Test case
was the following command:

$ dd if=/dev/mapper/vg0-root_crypt of=/dev/zero iflag=direct bs=8k count=131072

2.6.34 results in ~16 MB/s,
2.6.35 results in ~ 3.1 MB/s

The regression was bisected down to the follwoing commit:

commit c2c6ca417e2db7a519e6e92c82f4a933d940d076
Author: Josef Bacik <josef(a)redhat.com>
Date: Sun May 23 11:00:55 2010 -0400

direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests

....

How to fix this? I do not use btrfs, but ext3 (and the access was down on
the block level, not on the fs level, so this btrs-related commit should not
cause such a regression).

Best,

Dominik
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