Plugging is meant to optimize submission of a string of IOs, if we don't
have more than 2 being submitted, don't bother setting up a plug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 681f2072f81b..533cb7b1112f 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1887,6 +1887,12 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Plugging is meant to work with larger batches of IOs. If we don't
+ * have more than the below, then don't bother setting up a plug.
+ */
+#define AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD 2
+
/* sys_io_submit:
* Queue the nr iocbs pointed to by iocbpp for processing. Returns
* the number of iocbs queued. May return -EINVAL if the aio_context
@@ -1919,7 +1925,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, aio_context_t, ctx_id, long, nr,
if (nr > ctx->nr_events)
nr = ctx->nr_events;
- blk_start_plug(&plug);
+ if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+ blk_start_plug(&plug);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
struct iocb __user *user_iocb;
@@ -1932,7 +1939,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, aio_context_t, ctx_id, long, nr,
if (ret)
break;
}
- blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+ if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+ blk_finish_plug(&plug);
percpu_ref_put(&ctx->users);
return i ? i : ret;
@@ -1959,7 +1967,8 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, compat_aio_context_t, ctx_id,
if (nr > ctx->nr_events)
nr = ctx->nr_events;
- blk_start_plug(&plug);
+ if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+ blk_start_plug(&plug);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
compat_uptr_t user_iocb;
@@ -1972,7 +1981,8 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, compat_aio_context_t, ctx_id,
if (ret)
break;
}
- blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+ if (nr > AIO_PLUG_THRESHOLD)
+ blk_finish_plug(&plug);
percpu_ref_put(&ctx->users);
return i ? i : ret;
--
2.17.1
