nvmet: use inline bio for passthru fast path
In nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd() which is a high frequency function it uses bio_alloc() which leads to memory allocation from the fs pool for each I/O. For NVMeoF nvmet_req we already have inline_bvec allocated as a part of request allocation that can be used with preallocated bio when we already know the size of request before bio allocation with bio_alloc(), which we already do. Introduce a bio member for the nvmet_req passthru anon union. In the fast path, check if we can get away with inline bvec and bio from nvmet_req with bio_init() call before actually allocating from the bio_alloc(). This will be useful to avoid any new memory allocation under high memory pressure situation and get rid of any extra work of allocation (bio_alloc()) vs initialization (bio_init()) when transfer len is < NVMET_MAX_INLINE_DATA_LEN that user can configure at compile time. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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