block: blk-merge: fast-clone bio when splitting rw bios
biovecs has become immutable since v3.13, so it isn't necessary to allocate biovecs for the new cloned bios, then we can save one extra biovecs allocation/copy, and the allocation is often not fixed-length and a bit more expensive. For example, if the 'max_sectors_kb' of null blk's queue is set as 16(32 sectors) via sysfs just for making more splits, this patch can increase throught about ~70% in the sequential read test over null_blk(direct io, bs: 1M). Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Cc: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> This fixes a performance regression introduced by commit 54efd50b, and allows us to take full advantage of the fact that we have immutable bio_vecs. Hand applied, as it rejected violently with commit 5014c311. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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