On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:22:47AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > For a single CPU core and with the brd driver and fio and the io_uring > I/O engine, I see the following performance in a VM (three test runs for > each test case): > > Without this patch: 1619K, 1641K, 1638K IOPS or 1633 K +/- 10 K. > With this patch applied: 1650K, 1633K, 1635K IOPS or 1639 K +/- 8 K. > > So there is a small performance improvement but the improvement is > smaller than the measurement error. Is this sufficient data to proceed > with this patch? I think it's sufficient data that should not claim that it is an optimizations. The resulting code still looks nicer to me, but arguing with optimizations feels like BS.
