The number of SQEs to submit is specified by a user, so io_get_sqring() in most of the cases succeeds. Hint compilers about that. Checking ASM genereted by gcc 9.2.0 for x64, there is one branch misprediction. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index fa1cf7263959..86d1d8f272ae 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -3112,11 +3112,11 @@ static bool io_get_sqring(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct sqe_submit *s) */ head = ctx->cached_sq_head; /* make sure SQ entry isn't read before tail */ - if (head == smp_load_acquire(&rings->sq.tail)) + if (unlikely(head == smp_load_acquire(&rings->sq.tail))) return false; head = READ_ONCE(sq_array[head & ctx->sq_mask]); - if (head < ctx->sq_entries) { + if (likely(head < ctx->sq_entries)) { s->ring_file = NULL; s->sqe = &ctx->sq_sqes[head]; s->sequence = ctx->cached_sq_head; -- 2.24.0