Phoronix pts fio io_uring test regression report on upstream v6.1 and v5.15

[Saeed Mirzamohammadi]

Hello,
 
I'm reporting a performance regression after the commit below on phoronix pts/fio test and with the config that is added in the end of this email:

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210913131123.597544850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

commit 7b3188e7ed54102a5dcc73d07727f41fb528f7c8
Author: Jens Axboe axboe@xxxxxxxxx
Date:   Mon Aug 30 19:37:41 2021 -0600
 
    io_uring: IORING_OP_WRITE needs hash_reg_file set
 
We observed regression on the latest v6.1.y and v5.15.y upstream kernels (Haven't tested other stable kernels). We noticed that performance regression improved 45% after the revert of the commit above.
 
All of the benchmarks below have experienced around ~45% regression.
phoronix-pts-fio-1.15.0-RandomWrite-EngineIO_uring-BufferedNo-DirectYes-BlockSize4KB-MB-s_xfs
phoronix-pts-fio-1.15.0-SequentialWrite-EngineIO_uring-BufferedNo-DirectYes-BlockSize4KB-MB-s_xfs
phoronix-pts-fio-1.15.0-SequentialWrite-EngineIO_uring-BufferedYes-DirectNo-BlockSize4KB-MB-s_xfs
 
We tend to see this regression on 4KB BlockSize tests.
 
We tried out changing force_async but that has no effect on the result. Also, backported a modified version of the patch mentioned here (https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/7/20/854) but that didn't affect performance.
 
Do you have any suggestions on any fixes or what else we can try to narrow down the issue?
 
Thanks a bunch,
Saeed
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Here is more info on the benchmark and system:
 
Here is the config for fio:
[global]
rw=randwrite
ioengine=io_uring
iodepth=64
size=1g
direct=1
buffered=0
startdelay=5
force_async=4
ramp_time=5
runtime=20
time_based
disk_util=0
clat_percentiles=0
disable_lat=1
disable_clat=1
disable_slat=1
filename=/data/fiofile
[test]
name=test
bs=4k
stonewall
 
df -Th output (file is on /data/):
Filesystem                 Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                   devtmpfs  252G     0  252G   0% /dev
tmpfs                      tmpfs     252G     0  252G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      tmpfs     252G   18M  252G   1% /run
tmpfs                      tmpfs     252G     0  252G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/ocivolume-root xfs        89G   17G   73G  19% /
/dev/mapper/ocivolume-oled xfs        10G  143M  9.9G   2% /var/oled
/dev/sda2                  xfs      1014M  643M  372M  64% /boot
/dev/sda1                  vfat      100M  5.0M   95M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs                      tmpfs      51G     0   51G   0% /run/user/0
tmpfs                      tmpfs      51G     0   51G   0% /run/user/987
/dev/mapper/tank-lvm       xfs       100G  1.8G   99G   2% /data