Re: [PATCH 2/2] io_uring: batch getting pcpu references

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/17/19 4:21 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/17/19 3:28 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> percpu_ref_tryget() has its own overhead. Instead getting a reference
>> for each request, grab a bunch once per io_submit_sqes().
>>
>> basic benchmark with submit and wait 128 non-linked nops showed ~5%
>> performance gain. (7044 KIOPS vs 7423)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> For notice: it could be done without @extra_refs variable,
>> but looked too tangled because of gotos.
>>
>>
>>  fs/io_uring.c | 11 ++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>> index cf4138f0e504..6c85dfc62224 100644
>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>> @@ -845,9 +845,6 @@ static struct io_kiocb *io_get_req(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
>>  	gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
>>  	struct io_kiocb *req;
>>  
>> -	if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&ctx->refs))
>> -		return NULL;
>> -
>>  	if (!state) {
>>  		req = kmem_cache_alloc(req_cachep, gfp);
>>  		if (unlikely(!req))
>> @@ -3929,6 +3926,7 @@ static int io_submit_sqes(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int nr,
>>  	struct io_submit_state state, *statep = NULL;
>>  	struct io_kiocb *link = NULL;
>>  	int i, submitted = 0;
>> +	unsigned int extra_refs;
>>  	bool mm_fault = false;
>>  
>>  	/* if we have a backlog and couldn't flush it all, return BUSY */
>> @@ -3941,6 +3939,10 @@ static int io_submit_sqes(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int nr,
>>  		statep = &state;
>>  	}
>>  
>> +	if (!percpu_ref_tryget_many(&ctx->refs, nr))
>> +		return -EAGAIN;
>> +	extra_refs = nr;
>> +
>>  	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
>>  		struct io_kiocb *req = io_get_req(ctx, statep);
>>  

This also needs to come before the submit_state_start().

I forgot to mention that I really like the idea, no point in NOT batching
the refs when we know exactly how many refs we need.

-- 
Jens Axboe