Commit 67205f80 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe

brd: mark as nowait compatible

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.com/Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 6ded703c
......@@ -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;
......
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