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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Hristo Venev <hristo@venev.name>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: allocate the two rings together
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:50:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80e0e408-f602-4446-d244-60f9d4ce9c71@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190826172346.8341-1-hristo@venev.name>

On 8/26/19 11:23 AM, Hristo Venev wrote:
> Both the sq and the cq rings have sizes just over a power of two, and
> the sq ring is significantly smaller. By bundling them in a single
> alllocation, we get the sq ring for free.
> 
> This also means that IORING_OFF_SQ_RING and IORING_OFF_CQ_RING now mean
> the same thing. If we indicate this to userspace, we can save a mmap
> call.

This looks pretty good to me. My only worry was ending up with sq and
cq cacheline sharing, but the alignment of the io_uring struct itself
should prevent that nicely.

Outside of going for a cleanup, have you observed any wins from this
change?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-26 17:23 [PATCH] io_uring: allocate the two rings together Hristo Venev
2019-08-27 15:50 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-08-27 19:35   ` Hristo Venev
2019-08-29 15:04     ` Jens Axboe
2019-09-06 16:26       ` Jens Axboe
2019-09-06 19:12         ` [PATCH 1/2] liburing/test: There are now 4 reserved fields Hristo Venev
2019-09-06 19:12           ` [PATCH 2/2] liburing: Use the single mmap feature Hristo Venev
2019-09-06 19:30             ` Jens Axboe
2019-09-06 19:24           ` [PATCH 1/2] liburing/test: There are now 4 reserved fields Jens Axboe

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