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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2021-10-18 11:39:45 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2021-10-18 14:43:23 -0600
commitf09313c57a17683cbcb305989daf1d94b49fd32c (patch)
treee3c46d53930f6a7ba67f021f60ddb291f0722602 /include/linux/blk_types.h
parente4ae4735f7c2da77db57ee090b9f513bfe80d285 (diff)
block: cache inode size in bdev
Reading the inode size brings in a new cacheline for IO submit, and it's in the hot path being checked for every single IO. When doing millions of IOs per core per second, this is noticeable overhead. Cache the nr_sectors in the bdev itself. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 472e55e0e94f..fe065c394fff 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct bio_crypt_ctx;
struct block_device {
sector_t bd_start_sect;
+ sector_t bd_nr_sectors;
struct disk_stats __percpu *bd_stats;
unsigned long bd_stamp;
bool bd_read_only; /* read-only policy */