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    io_uring: avoid hashing O_DIRECT writes if the filesystem doesn't need it · d4755e15
    Jens Axboe authored
    io_uring hashes writes to a given file/inode so that it can serialize
    them. This is useful if the file system needs exclusive access to the
    file to perform the write, as otherwise we end up with a ton of io-wq
    threads trying to lock the inode at the same time. This can cause
    excessive system time.
    
    But if the file system has flagged that it supports parallel O_DIRECT
    writes, then there's no need to serialize the writes. Check for that
    through FMODE_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE and don't hash it if we don't need to.
    
    In a basic test of 8 threads writing to a file on XFS on a gen2 Optane,
    with each thread writing in 4k chunks, it improves performance from
    ~1350K IOPS (or ~5290MiB/sec) to ~1410K IOPS (or ~5500MiB/sec).
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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