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[11/27] aio: only use blk plugs for > 2 depth submissions

Message ID 20181130165646.27341-12-axboe@kernel.dk (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/27] aio: fix failure to put the file pointer | expand

Commit Message

Jens Axboe Nov. 30, 2018, 4:56 p.m. UTC 
Plugging is meant to optimize submission of a string of IOs, if we don't
have more than 2 being submitted, don't bother setting up a plug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
 fs/aio.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Dec. 4, 2018, 2:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:56:30AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Plugging is meant to optimize submission of a string of IOs, if we don't
> have more than 2 being submitted, don't bother setting up a plug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 681f2072f81b..533cb7b1112f 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1887,6 +1887,12 @@  static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Plugging is meant to work with larger batches of IOs. If we don't
+ * have more than the below, then don't bother setting up a plug.
+ */
+#define AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD	2
+
 /* sys_io_submit:
  *	Queue the nr iocbs pointed to by iocbpp for processing.  Returns
  *	the number of iocbs queued.  May return -EINVAL if the aio_context
@@ -1919,7 +1925,8 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, aio_context_t, ctx_id, long, nr,
 	if (nr > ctx->nr_events)
 		nr = ctx->nr_events;
 
-	blk_start_plug(&plug);
+	if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+		blk_start_plug(&plug);
 	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
 		struct iocb __user *user_iocb;
 
@@ -1932,7 +1939,8 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, aio_context_t, ctx_id, long, nr,
 		if (ret)
 			break;
 	}
-	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+	if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+		blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 
 	percpu_ref_put(&ctx->users);
 	return i ? i : ret;
@@ -1959,7 +1967,8 @@  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, compat_aio_context_t, ctx_id,
 	if (nr > ctx->nr_events)
 		nr = ctx->nr_events;
 
-	blk_start_plug(&plug);
+	if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+		blk_start_plug(&plug);
 	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
 		compat_uptr_t user_iocb;
 
@@ -1972,7 +1981,8 @@  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, compat_aio_context_t, ctx_id,
 		if (ret)
 			break;
 	}
-	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+	if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+		blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 
 	percpu_ref_put(&ctx->users);
 	return i ? i : ret;