Re: [RFC 00/11] optimise registered buffer/file updates

Jens Axboe
2023-03-31T15:18:13Z

On 3/30/23 8:53 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> Updating registered files and buffers is a very slow operation, which
> makes it not feasible for workloads with medium update frequencies.
> Rework the underlying rsrc infra for greater performance and lesser
> memory footprint.
>
> The improvement is ~11x for a benchmark updating files in a loop
> (1040K -> 11468K updates / sec).
>
> The set requires a couple of patches from the 6.3 branch, for that
> reason it's an RFC and will be resent after merge.

Looks pretty sane to me, didn't find anything immediately wrong. I
do wonder if we should have a conditional uring_lock helper, we do
have a few of those. But not really related to this series, as it
just moves one around.

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Jens Axboe