By default, non-mq drivers do not support nowait. This causes io_uring to use a slower path as the driver cannot be trust not to block. brd can safely set the nowait flag, as worst case all it does is a NOIO allocation.
For io_uring, this makes a substantial difference. Before:
submitter=0, tid=453, file=/dev/ram0, node=-1 polled=0, fixedbufs=1/0, register_files=1, buffered=0, QD=128 Engine=io_uring, sq_ring=128, cq_ring=128 IOPS=440.03K, BW=1718MiB/s, IOS/call=32/31 IOPS=428.96K, BW=1675MiB/s, IOS/call=32/32 IOPS=442.59K, BW=1728MiB/s, IOS/call=32/31 IOPS=419.65K, BW=1639MiB/s, IOS/call=32/32 IOPS=426.82K, BW=1667MiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
and after:
submitter=0, tid=354, file=/dev/ram0, node=-1 polled=0, fixedbufs=1/0, register_files=1, buffered=0, QD=128 Engine=io_uring, sq_ring=128, cq_ring=128 IOPS=3.37M, BW=13.15GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31 IOPS=3.45M, BW=13.46GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31 IOPS=3.43M, BW=13.42GiB/s, IOS/call=32/32 IOPS=3.43M, BW=13.39GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31 IOPS=3.43M, BW=13.38GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
or about an 8x in difference. Now that brd is prepared to deal with REQ_NOWAIT reads/writes, mark it as supporting that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230203103005.31290-1-p.raghav@samsung.... Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk --- drivers/block/brd.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c index 6019ef23344f..522530a6ebca 100644 --- a/drivers/block/brd.c +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ static int brd_alloc(int i) /* Tell the block layer that this is not a rotational device */ blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, disk->queue); blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, disk->queue); + blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, disk->queue); err = add_disk(disk); if (err) goto out_cleanup_disk;