Re: [PATCH 1/3] blk-mq: optimise rq sort function

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Fri Nov 29 2019 - 04:45:11 EST


On 11/29/2019 11:28 AM, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> On 28.11.19 Ð. 23:11 Ñ., Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> Check "!=" in multi-layer comparisons. The same memory usage, fewer
>> instructions, and 2 from 4 jumps are replaced with SETcc.
>>
>> Note, that list_sort() doesn't differ 0 and <0.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> My first reaction was this is wrong since you no longer return negative
> values. But then I looked into list_sort/merge and this branch
> 'if (cmp(priv, a, b) <= 0) {' clearly shows this is correct.

Yes, that's why there is a note in the patch description. The same is
told by list_sort() description.

>
> So :
>
> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for taking a look

>
>> ---
>> block/blk-mq.c | 12 ++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
>> index 323c9cb28066..f32a3cfdd34e 100644
>> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
>> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
>> @@ -1668,14 +1668,10 @@ static int plug_rq_cmp(void *priv, struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
>> struct request *rqa = container_of(a, struct request, queuelist);
>> struct request *rqb = container_of(b, struct request, queuelist);
>>
>> - if (rqa->mq_ctx < rqb->mq_ctx)
>> - return -1;
>> - else if (rqa->mq_ctx > rqb->mq_ctx)
>> - return 1;
>> - else if (rqa->mq_hctx < rqb->mq_hctx)
>> - return -1;
>> - else if (rqa->mq_hctx > rqb->mq_hctx)
>> - return 1;
>> + if (rqa->mq_ctx != rqb->mq_ctx)
>> + return rqa->mq_ctx > rqb->mq_ctx;
>> + if (rqa->mq_hctx != rqb->mq_hctx)
>> + return rqa->mq_hctx > rqb->mq_hctx;
>>
>> return blk_rq_pos(rqa) > blk_rq_pos(rqb);
>> }
>>

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Pavel Begunkov