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Ming Lei 0ba93a906d loop: try to handle loop aio command via NOWAIT IO first
Try to handle loop aio command via NOWAIT IO first, then we can avoid to
queue the aio command into workqueue. This is usually one big win in
case that FS block mapping is stable, Mikulas verified [1] that this way
improves IO perf by close to 5X in 12jobs sequential read/write test,
in which FS block mapping is just stable.

Fallback to workqueue in case of -EAGAIN. This way may bring a little
cost from the 1st retry, but when running the following write test over
loop/sparse_file, the actual effect on randwrite is obvious:

```
truncate -s 4G 1.img    #1.img is created on XFS/virtio-scsi
losetup -f 1.img --direct-io=on
fio --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=40 --time_based --numjobs=1 --ioengine=libaio \
	--iodepth=16 --group_reporting=1 --filename=/dev/loop0 -name=job --rw=$RW
```

- RW=randwrite: obvious IOPS drop observed
- RW=write: a little drop(%5 - 10%)

This perf drop on randwrite over sparse file will be addressed in the
following patch.

BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING has to be set for calling into .read_iter() or .write_iter()
which might sleep even though it is NOWAIT, and the only effect is that rcu read
lock is replaced with srcu read lock.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/a8e5c76a-231f-07d1-a394-847de930f638@redhat.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2025-11-18 06:49:52 -07:00
arch - Reset the why-the-system-rebooted register on AMD to avoid stale bits 2025-10-19 04:41:27 -10:00
block block: rate-limit capacity change info log 2025-11-17 11:30:24 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
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Documentation Documentation: admin-guide: blockdev: update zloop parameters 2025-11-17 09:40:09 -07:00
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kernel blktrace: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES tracing 2025-11-03 08:30:56 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.