[PATCH v2 4/8] ublk: initialize io_desc on daemon task
Caleb Sander Mateos <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 15:14:36 -0600
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]> --- 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