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blk-mq: prefetch request in blk_mq_tag_to_rq() 

When drivers or the core calls this function, they usually
dereference the request shortly there after. Prefetch the first
cache line.

Profiling IO workloads shows that this is the most common cache
miss on the block side of things.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Jens Axboe 2016-08-25 08:07:30 -06:00
parent 8d354f133e
commit 88c7b2b751
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/prefetch.h>
#include <trace/events/block.h>
@ -588,8 +589,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_mq_abort_requeue_list);
struct request *blk_mq_tag_to_rq(struct blk_mq_tags *tags, unsigned int tag)
{
if (tag < tags->nr_tags)
if (tag < tags->nr_tags) {
prefetch(tags->rqs[tag]);
return tags->rqs[tag];
}
return NULL;
}