Re: [PATCH 07/14] block: change plugging to use a singly linked list

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On 10/18/21 6:56 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 10/17/21 01:37, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Use a singly linked list for the blk_plug. This saves 8 bytes in the
>> blk_plug struct, and makes for faster list manipulations than doubly
>> linked lists. As we don't use the doubly linked lists for anything,
>> singly linked is just fine.
>>
>> This yields a bump in default (merging enabled) performance from 7.0
>> to 7.1M IOPS, and ~7.5M IOPS with merging disabled.
> 
> block/blk-merge.c: In function ‘blk_attempt_plug_merge’:
> block/blk-merge.c:1094:22: error: implicit declaration of function ‘rq_list_empty’; did you mean ‘bio_list_empty’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>   1094 |         if (!plug || rq_list_empty(plug->mq_list))
> 
> 
> Also in blk-mq.c and others, and I don't see it defined anywhere.
> Used just fetched for-5.16/block. Did I miss it somewhere?

I forgot to include this prep patch:

https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=perf-wip&id=b3ca14988ce2eb125a8a80c3ee146f3ad55cfcf4

-- 
Jens Axboe




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