From: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] ublk: simplify user copy
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 13:28:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251105202823.2198194-1-csander@purestorage.com> (raw)
Use copy_page_{to,from}_user() and rq_for_each_bvec() to simplify the
implementation of ublk_copy_user_pages(). Avoiding the page pinning and
unpinning saves expensive atomic increments and decrements of the page
reference counts. And copying via user virtual addresses avoids needing
to split the copy at user page boundaries. Ming reports a 40% throughput
improvement when issuing I/O to the selftests null ublk server with
zero-copy disabled.
v2:
- Use rq_for_each_bvec() to further simplify the code (Ming)
- Add performance measurements from Ming
Caleb Sander Mateos (2):
ublk: use copy_{to,from}_iter() for user copy
ublk: use rq_for_each_bvec() for user copy
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 113 ++++++++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
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2.45.2
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-05 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-05 20:28 Caleb Sander Mateos [this message]
2025-11-05 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ublk: use copy_{to,from}_iter() for user copy Caleb Sander Mateos
2025-11-06 4:22 ` Ming Lei
2025-11-05 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ublk: use rq_for_each_bvec() " Caleb Sander Mateos
2025-11-06 4:27 ` Ming Lei
2025-11-06 16:49 ` Caleb Sander Mateos
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