aio: allocate kiocbs in batches
In testing aio on a fast storage device, I found that the context lock
takes up a fair amount of cpu time in the I/O submission path. The reason
is that we take it for every I/O submitted (see __aio_get_req). Since we
know how many I/Os are passed to io_submit, we can preallocate the kiocbs
in batches, reducing the number of times we take and release the lock.
In my testing, I was able to reduce the amount of time spent in
_raw_spin_lock_irq by .56% (average of 3 runs). The command I used to
test this was:
aio-stress -O -o 2 -o 3 -r 8 -d 128 -b 32 -i 32 -s 16384 <dev>
I also tested the patch with various numbers of events passed to
io_submit, and I ran the xfstests aio group of tests to ensure I didn't
break anything.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index 2dcb72b..2314ad8 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
struct list_head ki_list; /* the aio core uses this
* for cancellation */
+ struct list_head ki_batch; /* batch allocation */
/*
* If the aio_resfd field of the userspace iocb is not zero,