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    block: recursive merge requests · 27419322
    Shaohua Li authored
    
    
    In my workload, thread 1 accesses a, a+2, ..., thread 2 accesses a+1,
    a+3,.... When the requests are flushed to queue, a and a+1 are merged
    to (a, a+1), a+2 and a+3 too to (a+2, a+3), but (a, a+1) and (a+2, a+3)
    aren't merged.
    With recursive merge below, the workload throughput gets improved 20%
    and context switch drops 60%.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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