[PATCH 10/17] block: wire-up support for plugging

[Kanchan Joshi]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 2:04 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:50:58PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> > From: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
> >
> > Add support to use plugging if it is enabled, else use default path.
>
> The subject and this comment don't really explain what is done, and
> also don't mention at all why it is done.

Missed out, will fix up. But plugging gave a very good hike to IOPS.
Especially while comparing this with io-uring's block-io path that
keeps .plug enabled. Patch 9 (that enables .plug for uring-cmd) and
this goes hand in hand.