On 11/4/24 8:41 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > On 11/3/24 17:49, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Rather than store the task_struct itself in struct io_kiocb, store >> the io_uring specific task_struct. The life times are the same in terms >> of io_uring, and this avoids doing some dereferences through the >> task_struct. For the hot path of putting local task references, we can > > Makes me wonder, is __io_submit_flush_completions() the only hot > place it tries to improve? It doesn't have to look into the task > there but on the other hand we need to do it that init. > If that's costly, for DEFER_TASKRUN we can get rid of per task > counting, the task is pinned together with the ctx, and the task > exit path can count the number of requests allocated. > > if (!(ctx->flags & DEFER_TASKRUN)) > io_task_get_ref(); > > if (!(ctx->flags & DEFER_TASKRUN)) > io_task_put_ref(); > > But can be further improved Avoid task refs would surely be useful. For SINGLE_ISSUER, no? -- Jens Axboe