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. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> 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 522c04864d82..ed6c3914477a 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ struct aio_ring { struct io_event io_events[0]; }; /* 128 bytes + ring size */ +/* + * 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 + #define AIO_RING_PAGES 8 struct kioctx_table { @@ -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