Re: [Xen-devel] IO speed limited by size of IO request (for RBD driver)

[Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> I've been working on expanding the number of segments that a request can
> hold, and the patches just went upstream for the next Linux kernel
> (3.10), you might want to test them, they can be found in the following
> git repo:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
>
> branch for-jens-3.10
>
> You will need to use them in both DomU and Dom0 in order to get more
> segments in a request.

I read about this change on the ML and the code and won't that also
require changes to blktap kernel driver and the userspace as well to
use the improvements ?

Cheers,

    Sylvain

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