From: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/8] ublk: initialize io_desc on daemon task
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 15:14:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803211441.2538144-5-csander@purestorage.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803211441.2538144-1-csander@purestorage.com>
ublk_setup_iod() is currently called to populate struct ublksrv_io_desc
on the thread submitting I/O to a ublk device. However, only the ublk
server threads read the io_descs. This basically guarantees a cache miss
on both threads for each ublk I/O. There's really no need to initialize
the io_descs on the submitting thread. Move the ublk_setup_iod() call to
ublk_dispatch_req() (for non-UBLK_F_BATCH_IO) and
__ublk_batch_prep_dispatch() (for UBLK_F_BATCH_IO), which runs on the
ublk server daemon thread before dispatching the I/O to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
index 7f0549238d76..291461e1b236 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
@@ -1798,10 +1798,11 @@ static void ublk_dispatch_req(struct ublk_queue *ubq, struct request *req)
{
unsigned int issue_flags = IO_URING_CMD_TASK_WORK_ISSUE_FLAGS;
u16 tag = req->tag;
struct ublk_io *io = &ubq->ios[tag];
+ ublk_setup_iod(ubq, req);
pr_devel("%s: complete: qid %d tag %d io_flags %x addr %llx\n",
__func__, ubq->q_id, req->tag, io->flags,
ublk_get_iod(ubq, req->tag)->addr);
/*
@@ -1851,10 +1852,11 @@ static bool __ublk_batch_prep_dispatch(struct ublk_queue *ubq,
struct ublk_io *io = &ubq->ios[tag];
struct request *req = blk_mq_tag_to_rq(ub->tag_set.tags[ubq->q_id], tag);
enum auto_buf_reg_res res = AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK;
struct io_uring_cmd *cmd = data->cmd;
+ ublk_setup_iod(ubq, req);
if (!ublk_start_io(ubq, req, io))
return false;
if (ublk_support_auto_buf_reg(ubq) && blk_rq_has_data(req)) {
res = ublk_auto_buf_register(ubq, req, io, cmd,
@@ -2187,11 +2189,10 @@ static blk_status_t ublk_prep_req(struct ublk_queue *ubq, struct request *rq,
/* fill iod to slot in io cmd buffer */
if (unlikely(!ublk_validate_req(ubq, rq)))
return BLK_STS_IOERR;
- ublk_setup_iod(ubq, rq);
blk_mq_start_request(rq);
return BLK_STS_OK;
}
/*
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 21:14 [PATCH v2 0/8] ublk: io_desc optimizations Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] ublk: consistently use u16 for queue and tag numbers Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] ublk: remove struct ublk_zoned_report_desc's operation field Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] ublk: split request validation from io_desc init Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` Caleb Sander Mateos [this message]
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] ublk: add UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] selftests: ublk: add support for --io_desc_size Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] selftests: ublk: add UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE test Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] ublk: lift checks out of ublk_{,un}map_io() Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-08-04 2:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] ublk: io_desc optimizations Jens Axboe
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