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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] iov_iter fixes
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 03:11:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTrM130S32ymVhXT@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8786a7e-5616-ce83-c2f2-53a4754bf5a4@kernel.dk>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 09:05:13PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/9/21 8:57 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 03:19:56PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> >> Not sure how we'd do that, outside of stupid tricks like copy the
> >> iov_iter before we pass it down. But that's obviously not going to be
> >> very efficient. Hence we're left with having some way to reset/reexpand,
> >> even in the presence of someone having done truncate on it.
> > 
> > "Obviously" why, exactly?  It's not that large a structure; it's not
> > the optimal variant, but I'd like to see profiling data before assuming
> > that it'll cause noticable slowdowns.
> 
> It's 48 bytes, and we have to do it upfront. That means we'd be doing it
> for _all_ requests, not just when we need to retry. As an example, current
> benchmarks are at ~4M read requests per core. That'd add ~200MB/sec of
> memory traffic just doing this copy.

Umm...  How much of that will be handled by cache?

> Besides, I think that's moot as there's a better way.

I hope so, but I'm afraid that "let's reload from userland on e.g. short
reads" is not better - there's a plenty of interesting corner cases you
need to handle with that.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-09  4:22 [git pull] iov_iter fixes Al Viro
2021-09-09 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 21:19   ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 21:39     ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 21:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 22:21         ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 22:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10  1:35             ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  2:43               ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  2:48               ` Al Viro
2021-09-10  3:06                 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  3:15                   ` Al Viro
2021-09-10  3:23                     ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  3:24                     ` Al Viro
2021-09-10  3:28                       ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-13 15:29                 ` David Laight
2021-09-09 21:42     ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-10  2:57     ` Al Viro
2021-09-10  3:05       ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  3:11         ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-09-10  3:22           ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  3:27             ` Al Viro
2021-09-10  3:30               ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10  3:36                 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 13:57                   ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 14:42                     ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 15:08                       ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 15:32                         ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 15:36                           ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 15:04                     ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 16:06                       ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 16:44                         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 16:56                         ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 16:58                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 17:26                             ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 17:31                               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 17:32                                 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 18:48                                 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 19:04                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 19:10                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 19:10                                   ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 17:04                           ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 22:54   ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-09-09 22:57     ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-09-09 23:14   ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-09-09 20:03 ` pr-tracker-bot

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