The function blk_rq_append_bio() is a genereric API written for all
types driver (having bounce buffers) and different context (where
request is already having a bio i.e. rq->bio != NULL).
It does mainly three things: calculating the segments, bounce queue and
if req->bio == NULL call blk_rq_bio_prep() or handle low level merge()
case.
The NVMe PCIe and fabrics transports currently does not use queue
bounce mechanism. In order to find this for each request processing
in the passthru blk_rq_append_bio() does extra work in the fast path
for each request.
When I ran I/Os with different block sizes on the passthru controller
I found that we can reuse the req->sg_cnt instead of iterating over the
bvecs to find out nr_segs in blk_rq_append_bio(). This calculation in
blk_rq_append_bio() is a duplication of work given that we have the
value in req->sg_cnt. (correct me here if I'm wrong).
With NVMe passthru request based driver we allocate fresh request each
time, so every call to blk_rq_append_bio() rq->bio will be NULL i.e.
we don't really need the second condition in the blk_rq_append_bio()
and the resulting error condition in the caller of blk_rq_append_bio().
So for NVMeOF passthru driver recalculating the segments, bounce check
and ll_back_merge code is not needed such that we can get away with the
minimal version of the blk_rq_append_bio() which removes the error check
in the fast path along with extra variable in nvmet_passthru_map_sg().
This patch updates the nvmet_passthru_map_sg() such that it does only
appending the bio to the request in the context of the NVMeOF Passthru
driver. Following are perf numbers :-
With current implementation (blk_rq_append_bio()) :-
----------------------------------------------------
+ 5.80% 0.02% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 5.44% 0.01% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 4.88% 0.00% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 5.44% 0.01% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 4.86% 0.01% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 5.17% 0.00% kworker/0:2-eve [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
With this patch using blk_rq_bio_prep() :-
----------------------------------------------------
+ 3.14% 0.02% kworker/0:2-eve [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 3.26% 0.01% kworker/0:2-eve [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 5.37% 0.01% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 5.18% 0.02% kworker/0:2-eve [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 4.84% 0.02% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
+ 4.87% 0.01% kworker/0:2-mm_ [nvmet] [k] nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/target/passthru.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/passthru.c b/drivers/nvme/target/passthru.c
index e5b5657bcce2..496ffedb77dc 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/passthru.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/passthru.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int nvmet_passthru_map_sg(struct nvmet_req *req, struct request *rq)
int sg_cnt = req->sg_cnt;
struct scatterlist *sg;
struct bio *bio;
- int i, ret;
+ int i;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, min(sg_cnt, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
bio->bi_end_io = bio_put;
@@ -198,11 +198,7 @@ static int nvmet_passthru_map_sg(struct nvmet_req *req, struct request *rq)
sg_cnt--;
}
- ret = blk_rq_append_bio(rq, &bio);
- if (unlikely(ret)) {
- bio_put(bio);
- return ret;
- }
+ blk_rq_bio_prep(rq, bio, req->sg_cnt);
return 0;
}
--
2.22.1
