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SubjectRE: [PATCH v4] io_uring: reduce latency by reissueing the operation
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From: Jens Axboe
> Sent: 25 June 2021 01:45
>
> On 6/22/21 6:17 AM, Olivier Langlois wrote:
> > It is quite frequent that when an operation fails and returns EAGAIN,
> > the data becomes available between that failure and the call to
> > vfs_poll() done by io_arm_poll_handler().
> >
> > Detecting the situation and reissuing the operation is much faster
> > than going ahead and push the operation to the io-wq.
> >
> > Performance improvement testing has been performed with:
> > Single thread, 1 TCP connection receiving a 5 Mbps stream, no sqpoll.
> >
> > 4 measurements have been taken:
> > 1. The time it takes to process a read request when data is already available
> > 2. The time it takes to process by calling twice io_issue_sqe() after vfs_poll() indicated that data
> was available
> > 3. The time it takes to execute io_queue_async_work()
> > 4. The time it takes to complete a read request asynchronously
> >
> > 2.25% of all the read operations did use the new path.

How much slower is it when the data to complete the read isn't
available?

I suspect there are different workflows where that is almost
always true.

David

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