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: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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