Hi Jeff,
On 07/22/2014 11:20 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Gu Zheng <guz.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:
>
>> use an iovec array rather than the single one, so that we can avoid
>> to alloc more iovecs buffer in small(< 8) PREADV/PWRITEV cases.
>
> I did some basic functional testing of this change and the change in
> patch 1/4. That testing included using aio-stress to drive queue depths
> of 7, 8 and 9, and verify that it didn't fall over. I also ran xfstests
> './check -g aio', and libaio's 'make partcheck'.
>
> The change looks good to me, and passed testing, so:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com>
Thanks for your review and test.
>
> However, I still would like some comment on the reasoning behind it, and
> whether there is some measurable performance advantage for some
> workload. Additionally, it would be nice if that comment made its way
> into the commit message.
I'll add more useful info, and send it out later.
Thanks,
Gu
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> fs/aio.c | 10 +++++-----
>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
>> index 0cd0479..ef21efe 100644
>> --- a/fs/aio.c
>> +++ b/fs/aio.c
>> @@ -1260,12 +1260,12 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_vectored_rw(struct kiocb
>> *kiocb,
>> if (compat)
>> ret = compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(rw,
>> (struct compat_iovec __user *)buf,
>> - *nr_segs, 1, *iovec, iovec);
>> + *nr_segs, UIO_FASTIOV, *iovec, iovec);
>> else
>> #endif
>> ret = rw_copy_check_uvector(rw,
>> (struct iovec __user *)buf,
>> - *nr_segs, 1, *iovec, iovec);
>> + *nr_segs, UIO_FASTIOV, *iovec, iovec);
>> if (ret < 0)
>> return ret;
>>
>> @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_run_iocb(struct kiocb *req,
>> unsigned opcode,
>> fmode_t mode;
>> aio_rw_op *rw_op;
>> rw_iter_op *iter_op;
>> - struct iovec inline_vec, *iovec = &inline_vec;
>> + struct iovec inline_vecs[UIO_FASTIOV], *iovec = inline_vecs;
>> struct iov_iter iter;
>>
>> switch (opcode) {
>> @@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ rw_common:
>> if (!ret)
>> ret = rw_verify_area(rw, file, &req->ki_pos,
>> req->ki_nbytes);
>> if (ret < 0) {
>> - if (iovec != &inline_vec)
>> + if (iovec != inline_vecs)
>> kfree(iovec);
>> return ret;
>> }
>> @@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ rw_common:
>> return -EINVAL;
>> }
>>
>> - if (iovec != &inline_vec)
>> + if (iovec != inline_vecs)
>> kfree(iovec);
>>
>> if (ret != -EIOCBQUEUED) {
> .
>
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