Re: [PATCH 0/2] task_put batching

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Jul 20 2020 - 12:39:38 EST


On 7/20/20 9:22 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 18/07/2020 17:37, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 7/18/20 2:32 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> For my a bit exaggerated test case perf continues to show high CPU
>>> cosumption by io_dismantle(), and so calling it io_iopoll_complete().
>>> Even though the patch doesn't yield throughput increase for my setup,
>>> probably because the effect is hidden behind polling, but it definitely
>>> improves relative percentage. And the difference should only grow with
>>> increasing number of CPUs. Another reason to have this is that atomics
>>> may affect other parallel tasks (e.g. which doesn't use io_uring)
>>>
>>> before:
>>> io_iopoll_complete: 5.29%
>>> io_dismantle_req: 2.16%
>>>
>>> after:
>>> io_iopoll_complete: 3.39%
>>> io_dismantle_req: 0.465%
>>
>> Still not seeing a win here, but it's clean and it _should_ work. For
>> some reason I end up getting the offset in task ref put growing the
>> fput_many(). Which doesn't (on the surface) make a lot of sense, but
>> may just mean that we have some weird side effects.
>
> It grows because the patch is garbage, the second condition is always false.
> See the diff. Could you please drop both patches?

Hah, indeed. With this on top, it looks like it should in terms of
performance and profiles.

I can just fold this into the existing one, if you'd like.

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Jens Axboe