We hash regular files to avoid having multiple threads hammer on the inode mutex, but it should not be needed on other types of files (like sockets). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 4fd65ff230eb..8258a2f299e3 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -581,7 +581,9 @@ static inline bool io_prep_async_work(struct io_kiocb *req, switch (req->sqe->opcode) { case IORING_OP_WRITEV: case IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED: - do_hashed = true; + /* only regular files should be hashed for writes */ + if (req->flags & REQ_F_ISREG) + do_hashed = true; /* fall-through */ case IORING_OP_READV: case IORING_OP_READ_FIXED: -- 2.24.0