On 12/17/19 4:21 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/17/19 3:28 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> percpu_ref_tryget() has its own overhead. Instead getting a reference
>> for each request, grab a bunch once per io_submit_sqes().
>>
>> basic benchmark with submit and wait 128 non-linked nops showed ~5%
>> performance gain. (7044 KIOPS vs 7423)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> For notice: it could be done without @extra_refs variable,
>> but looked too tangled because of gotos.
>>
>>
>> fs/io_uring.c | 11 ++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>> index cf4138f0e504..6c85dfc62224 100644
>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>> @@ -845,9 +845,6 @@ static struct io_kiocb *io_get_req(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
>> gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
>> struct io_kiocb *req;
>>
>> - if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&ctx->refs))
>> - return NULL;
>> -
>> if (!state) {
>> req = kmem_cache_alloc(req_cachep, gfp);
>> if (unlikely(!req))
>> @@ -3929,6 +3926,7 @@ static int io_submit_sqes(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int nr,
>> struct io_submit_state state, *statep = NULL;
>> struct io_kiocb *link = NULL;
>> int i, submitted = 0;
>> + unsigned int extra_refs;
>> bool mm_fault = false;
>>
>> /* if we have a backlog and couldn't flush it all, return BUSY */
>> @@ -3941,6 +3939,10 @@ static int io_submit_sqes(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int nr,
>> statep = &state;
>> }
>>
>> + if (!percpu_ref_tryget_many(&ctx->refs, nr))
>> + return -EAGAIN;
>> + extra_refs = nr;
>> +
>> for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
>> struct io_kiocb *req = io_get_req(ctx, statep);
>>
This also needs to come before the submit_state_start().
I forgot to mention that I really like the idea, no point in NOT batching
the refs when we know exactly how many refs we need.
--
Jens Axboe
