[PATCH v2] iomap: avoid memset iomap when iter is done

Fengnan Chang
2026-04-20T06:16:39Z

When iomap_iter() finishes its iteration (returns <= 0), it is no longer
necessary to memset the entire iomap and srcmap structures.

In high-IOPS scenarios (like 4k randread NVMe polling with io_uring),
where the majority of I/Os complete in a single extent map, this wasted
memory write bandwidth, as the caller will just discard the iterator.
Use this command to test:
taskset -c 30 ./t/io_uring -p1 -d512 -b4096 -s32 -c32 -F1 -B1 -R1 -X1
-n1 -P1 /mnt/testfile
IOPS improve about 5% on ext4 and XFS.

However, we MUST still call iomap_iter_reset_iomap() to release the
folio_batch if IOMAP_F_FOLIO_BATCH is set, otherwise we leak page
references. Therefore, split the cleanup logic: always release the
folio_batch, but skip the memset() when ret <= 0.

Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
---
fs/iomap/iter.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/iomap/iter.c b/fs/iomap/iter.c
index c04796f6e57f..e4a29829591a 100644
--- a/fs/iomap/iter.c
+++ b/fs/iomap/iter.c
@@ -6,17 +6,13 @@
#include <linux/iomap.h>
#include "trace.h"

-static inline void iomap_iter_reset_iomap(struct iomap_iter *iter)
+static inline void iomap_iter_clean_fbatch(struct iomap_iter *iter)
{
if (iter->iomap.flags & IOMAP_F_FOLIO_BATCH) {
folio_batch_release(iter->fbatch);
folio_batch_reinit(iter->fbatch);
iter->iomap.flags &= ~IOMAP_F_FOLIO_BATCH;
}
-
- iter->status = 0;
- memset(&iter->iomap, 0, sizeof(iter->iomap));
- memset(&iter->srcmap, 0, sizeof(iter->srcmap));
}

/* Advance the current iterator position and decrement the remaining length */
@@ -102,10 +98,14 @@ int iomap_iter(struct iomap_iter *iter, const struct iomap_ops *ops)
ret = 0;
else
ret = 1;
- iomap_iter_reset_iomap(iter);
+ iomap_iter_clean_fbatch(iter);
+ iter->status = 0;
if (ret <= 0)
return ret;

+ memset(&iter->iomap, 0, sizeof(iter->iomap));
+ memset(&iter->srcmap, 0, sizeof(iter->srcmap));
+
begin:
ret = ops->iomap_begin(iter->inode, iter->pos, iter->len, iter->flags,
&iter->iomap, &iter->srcmap);
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)